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Ehud the Bandit

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Posted on June 26, 2008 - 10:25am at Sense of Events
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Back in 1995, I attended a lecture in Washington, DC, given by the late Mancur Olson regarding his theory of banditry and the emergence of dictatorships and dysfunctional democracies in 20th century politics.