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Growth and Variability in State Tax Revenue
An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises
Av Randall G. Holcombe, Russell S. Sobel
E-bok, 1997
1204 kr
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During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands. This volume shows that state fiscal crises have only one significant cause: revenue downturns associated with recessions. Other analysts have argued that …
Economic Models and Methodology
Inbunden, 1989
1067 kr
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The world is too complex for anyone to ever hope to understand all of its interrelationships simultaneously. Yet small aspects of the world we live in can be represented by comprehensible models. This is why economists use models in their analysis and research. In Economic Models and Methodology, …
Public Policy and the Quality of Life
Market Incentives versus Government Planning
Inbunden, 1995
1067 kr
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This volume argues that the virtues of the market system, private property, and freedom of exchange can be applied to enhance the quality of life. Although people recognize in the abstract that markets work better than government in allocating resources, government's presence in the economy …
Growth and Variability in State Tax Revenue
An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises
Av Randall G. Holcombe, Russell S. Sobel
Inbunden, 1997
1098 kr
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During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands. This volume shows that state fiscal crises have only one significant cause: revenue downturns associated with recessions. Other analysts have argued that …
Smarter Growth
Market-Based Strategies for Land-Use Planning in the 21st Century
Av Randall G. Holcombe, Samuel R. Staley
Inbunden, 2001
1067 kr
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At the transition from the 20th to the 21st Century, land use planning and growth management have become two of the most controversial issues in state and local government policy. Primarily the province of local government until the 1970s, state governments have become increasingly involved in land …
Economic Foundations of Government
Inbunden, 1993
1098 kr
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Government is analysed as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power. This approach shows why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive power, and why even the most powerful government benefits from constitutional rules …
Economic Foundations of Government
Inbunden, 1993
1493 kr
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This welcome work argues that government is the result of a contract arrived at by individuals with varying bargaining power. Holcombe explores such issues as why the political system protects individual's rights, why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive …
Following Their Leaders
Political Preferences and Public Policy
Inbunden, 2023
1376 kr
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Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences and that candidates adjust their platforms to conform with those preferences; however, the direction of causation is largely the opposite. Political elites offer policy platforms to voters, and voters adopt those …
Following Their Leaders
Political Preferences and Public Policy
Häftad, 2023
606 kr
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Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences and that candidates adjust their platforms to conform with those preferences; however, the direction of causation is largely the opposite. Political elites offer policy platforms to voters, and voters adopt those …
Politics as Exchange
An Analysis of the Political Marketplace
Inbunden, 2025
1290 kr
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Political institutions have been depicted by academics as a marketplace where citizens transact with each other to accomplish collective ends difficult to accomplish otherwise. This depiction supports a romantic notion of democracy in which democratic governments are accountable to their citizens, …
Politics as Exchange
An Analysis of the Political Marketplace
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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Political institutions have been depicted by academics as a marketplace where citizens transact with each other to accomplish collective ends difficult to accomplish otherwise. This depiction supports a romantic notion of democracy in which democratic governments are accountable to their citizens, …
Political Capitalism
How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of …
Political Capitalism
How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
Inbunden, 2018
1644 kr
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Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of …
Political Capitalism
How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
E-bok, 2018
487 kr
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Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of …
Political Capitalism
How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
E-bok, 2018
477 kr
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Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of …
Economic Foundations of Government
E-bok, 2016
1516 kr
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Government is analysed as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power. This approach shows why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive power, and why even the most powerful government benefits from constitutional rules …
Economic Foundations of Government
Häftad, 1994
1098 kr
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Government is analysed as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power. This approach shows why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive power, and why even the most powerful government benefits from constitutional rules …
Housing America
Building Out of a Crisis
Inbunden, 2009
1404 kr
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Housing policy not only aff ects all Americans' quality of life, but has a direct impact on their fi nancial well being. About 70 percent of American households own their own homes, and for most, their homes represent the majority of their net worth. Renters are aff ected by housing policy. Even …
Advanced Introduction to Public Choice
Inbunden, 2016
1666 kr
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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. This Advanced Introduction presents a focused narrative about political decision-making based on the work that has defined …
Advanced Introduction to Public Choice
E-bok, 2016
312 kr
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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. This Advanced Introduction presents a focused narrative about political decision-making based on the work that has defined …
Advanced Introduction to Public Choice
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. This Advanced Introduction presents a focused narrative about political decision-making based on the work that has defined …
Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics
Inbunden, 2020
1716 kr
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Presenting a concise overview of the post-war decline in popularity of the Austrian school of economics and its subsequent revival in the late twentieth century, this updated second edition offers a theoretical and historical introduction to the ideas of the Austrian school and its intellectually …
Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics
E-bok, 2020
340 kr
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Presenting a concise overview of the post-war decline in popularity of the Austrian school of economics and its subsequent revival in the late twentieth century, this updated second edition offers a theoretical and historical introduction to the ideas of the Austrian school and its intellectually …
Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics
Häftad, 2020
349 kr
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Presenting a concise overview of the post-war decline in popularity of the Austrian school of economics and its subsequent revival in the late twentieth century, this updated second edition offers a theoretical and historical introduction to the ideas of the Austrian school and its intellectually …
Coordination, Cooperation, and Control
The Evolution of Economic and Political Power
Inbunden, 2020
1098 kr
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There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power. When economic and political power are held by the same people, the result is stagnation; when those who hold economic power are not the same …
