Randall Gregory Holcombe (born June 4, 1950) is an American

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, and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at

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.Florida State University
Economics Department faculty listing
. Retrieved 2011-02-01. He is a Senior Fellow at

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,The Independent Institute
Randall G. Holcombe
Retrieved 2012-04-18. a Senior Fellow and member of the Research Advisory Council at The James Madison Institute, and past president of the Public Choice Society.Florida State University
Randall G. Holcombe
. Retrieved 2012-04-18. From 2000 to 2006 he served on

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Jeb Bush's Council of Economic Advisors. Holcombe is the author of several books on

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and

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. In

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theoretical discourse, he has argued that

private defense agencies A private defense agency (PDA) is a theoretical enterprise which would provide personal protection and military defense services to individuals who would pay for its services. PDAs are advocated in anarcho-capitalism as a way of enforcing the s ...

could form cartels and oppress people, more or less as governments, with little fear of competition. Holcombe is a musician and licensed pilot.Mises Economics Blog

Retrieved 2012-04-18.

Bibliography

* * Holcombe, Randall G. ''Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power is Made and Maintained''. Cambridge University Press, 2018. . * Holcombe, Randall G. ''Coordination, Cooperation, and Control: The Evolution of Economic and Political Power''. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2020. , .

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