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Econ. Gov. (2001) 2: 35–58 c Springer-Verlag 2001 How to understand, and deal with dictatorship: an economist’s view Ronald Wintrobe Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Political Economy Research Group, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A5C2, Canada Received: February 1999 / Accepted: 10 November 1999 Abstract. This paper explains in simple English some of the main ideas about autocracy first developed elsewhere (e.