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¹⁰ For a more detailed analysis of the state capitalist urban model see Richard Child Hill, “State Capitalism and the Urban Fiscal Crisis in the United States,” unpublished ms., Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, July 1975.

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