Acknowledgments This paper was presented in the Plenary Session dedicated to The Bloomington School
of Political Economy at The 50th Anniversary Conference of the Public Choice Society, in New Orleans,
7–19 March 2013. The author would like to thank the members of the panel, Michael Munger, Roberta
Herzberg, James Walker and Eli Dourado. Special thanks to Ed Lopez, William F. Shughart II, Steven
Brams and Theo Toonen for their generous comments