Luijk, Eric W. van; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 158 (2002) 4, pp. 576-576
Early in the twentieth century the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) had a government monopoly on the import, refining, and retailing of opium. There were regional differences in opium policy ranging from areas with prohibition to areas where opium use was hardly restricted. We analyze...