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Toshihiro Ihori, University of Tokyo — Japan and Martin C. McGuire, University of California-Irvine — USA, National Self-Insurance and Self-Protection: Management and Moral Hazard

Robert Durant, American University, School of Public Affairs — USA, Theory, Administrative Reform, and the Perdurability of Herbert Hoover

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