The Locke Institute series – serie
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BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Häftad, 1996
580 kr
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Bureaucracy and Public Economics brings together in one volume the classic book and related articles which put forward the first formal economic theory of the behaviour of bureaucracies. William Niskanen Jr. has consistently argued that bureaucrats have personal objectives - that differ from those …
Capital and Uncertainty
The Capital Investment Process in a Market Economy
Av Ian Runge
Inbunden, 2000
1886 kr
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This book is an important addition to the emerging body of new work on capital. Its primary contribution is in analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant extension to the standard neo-classical economic …
European Monetary Union in a Public Choice Perspective
Inbunden, 2002
2245 kr
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The future of European Monetary Union (EMU) stands as one of the most important economic issues of the era. The author argues that in the event of macroeconomic shocks, rather than acting as a cohesive force, EMU could give rise to disunity. As EMU is not an optimal currency area, asymmetric shocks …
Rules, Choice and Strategy
The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform
Av Ram Mudambi, Pietro Maria Navarra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1832 kr
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The design of an electoral system is fundamental to any democracy. It is through electoral systems that the commitment of a society to a political system is achieved. The peculiarities of an electoral system assume significant importance in periods in which democratic polities seem caught between a …
Origins of Law and Economics
Essays by the Founding Fathers
Av Francesco Parisi, Charles K. Rowley
Inbunden, 2005
2794 kr
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This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field of scholarship during the early 1960s, fueled by two seminal …
Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States
Inbunden, 2007
1832 kr
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The welfare system in the United States underwent profound changes as a result of the groundbreaking welfare legislation passed in 1996 entitled The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States examines in …
Economic Welfare, International Business and Global Institutional Change
Av Ram Mudambi, Pietro Maria Navarra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2560 kr
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Global economic progress in the twentieth century, while generally encouraging, was neither continuous nor uniform. With the exception of some Asian nations, countries that were more developed at the beginning of the twentieth century still rank amongst the wealthiest nations, while countries that …
Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government
Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes
Inbunden, 2003
1798 kr
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This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes.William Niskanen provides valuable analysis of the effects of the voting rule, …
Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking
Inbunden, 2005
1798 kr
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Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the …
Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government
Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes
Häftad, 2004
518 kr
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This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes.William Niskanen provides valuable analysis of the effects of the voting rule, …
Origins of Law and Economics
Essays by the Founding Fathers
Av Francesco Parisi, Charles K. Rowley
Häftad, 2007
837 kr
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This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field of scholarship during the early 1960s, fueled by two seminal …
Markets Versus Hierarchies
A Political Economy of Russia from the 10th Century to 2008
Inbunden, 2009
1975 kr
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This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia. Ekaterina Brancato exposes the devastating effects of self-interested …
Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking
Häftad, 2008
503 kr
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Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated as the …
RIGHT TO JUSTICE
The Political Economy of Legal Services in the United States
Inbunden, 1992
2335 kr
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'They have built a dam across the rivers of justice and then they complain of the drought in the field below.' - With these stinging words W. Clarke Durrant III, then Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation, admonished the American Bar Association in 1987 for its use of monopoly prices to …
PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES
The Market Provision of Social Services
Inbunden, 1994
2107 kr
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Do public goods and services, such as streets, parks and dams have to be provided by government? In Public Goods and Private Communities, Fred Foldvary's innovative application of public choice and spatial theory to questions of urban economics and governance shows how collective goods can be …
TRADE PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES
Av Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
2400 kr
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Trade policy in the United States since 1930 is rigorously evaluated in this major new book. Using public choice analysis to identify and explain protectionist behavior, Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke and Richard E. Wagner demonstrate why unilateral free trade cannot be achieved through the …
on voting
A Public Choice Approach
Inbunden, 1998
1969 kr
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In this important new book, Gordon Tullock, a founding father of the public choice school, provides a formal analysis of the foundations of decision making. Voting procedures are crucial to Western democratic governments but are also employed in dictatorial governments, private clubs, corporations …
Policy Analysis and Public Choice
Selected Papers by William A. Niskanen
Inbunden, 1998
2606 kr
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Policy Analysis and Public Choice is an important selection of articles written by William A. Niskanen over the last thirty years. The volume represents two quite different disciplines to which Niskanen has made a major contribution: policy analysis and public choice. It also includes his major …
Limited Government, Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law
Selected Works of Arthur Asher Shenfield
Av Norman Barry
Inbunden, 1998
2224 kr
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This volume offers a selection of the works of one of the most persuasive and sophisticated theorists of the free economy and the free society, Arthur Asher Shenfield.Arthur Asher Shenfield was a classical liberal and an astute critic of misguided government intervention in a free economy. He …
Political Economy of the New Deal
Av Jim F. Couch, William F. Shughart II
Inbunden, 1998
1952 kr
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The Political Economy of the New Deal explores the political and economic forces that shaped the highly uneven distribution of federal emergency relief spending during the Great Depression. It presents new empirical evidence on the Roosevelt administration's response to the Great Depression, and …
Political Economy of Democratic Institutions
Av Peter Moser
Inbunden, 2000
1969 kr
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Majority rules are generally unstable and not binding for future voters, and so are insufficient for the required security of a market economy. In this challenging book, Peter Moser argues that stability can be achieved by democratic political institutions limiting the influence of majorities.Peter …
Policy Analysis and Public Choice
Selected Papers by William A. Niskanen
Häftad, 2004
1015 kr
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Policy Analysis and Public Choice is an important selection of articles written by William A. Niskanen over the last thirty years. The volume represents two quite different disciplines to which Niskanen has made a major contribution: policy analysis and public choice. It also includes his major …
Hayek Revisited
Av Boudewijn Bouckaert, Annette Godart-van der Kroon
Inbunden, 2000
1797 kr
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To celebrate the centenary of Hayek's birth, this timely book gathers together a distinguished group of authors who celebrate his work and pay testament to the vast scope of his ideas which span across epistemology, economy, the history of ideas, legal theory and cultural philosophy.The authors …
