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- ↑ "Bruce Yandle biography". Archived from the original on 2009-01-01. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ↑ "Jane S. Shaw, Author at The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal".
- ↑ "Center for Study of Constitutional Political Economy, George Tullock biography" (PDF).