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Trouble Tax: We All Pay a Time Price for Bureaucratic Dysfunction

Trouble Tax: We All Pay a Time Price for Bureaucratic Dysfunction
The California Department of Motor Vehicles office (DMV) in Van Nuys, Calif., on Aug. 6, 2018. behzad moloud/Shutterstock
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Adam Smith said it all, in “Wealth of Nations”: “The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
Michael Munger
Michael Munger
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Michael Munger is a professor of political science, economics, and public policy at Duke University and senior fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). His degrees are from Davidson College, Washington University in St. Louis, and Washington University. Munger’s research interests include regulation, political institutions, and political economy.
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