Public Choice Theory

  1. Add to Wish List Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks

    Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks

    Marianna A. Klochko, Peter C. Ordeshook
    Marianna Klochko and Peter Ordeshook address an under-studied issue from rational choice theory – the common assumption that individual time preferences are exogenous and fixed. They then present empirical evidence to suggest that this i...
    Hardback (2006)

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  2. Add to Wish List Anarchy, State and Public Choice

    Anarchy, State and Public Choice

    Edited by Edward Stringham
    The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. ...
    Hardback (2006)

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  3. Add to Wish List Public Pensions and Immigration

    Public Pensions and Immigration

    Tim Krieger
    The rapid ageing of societies in many industrialized countries threatens the stability of unfunded public pension systems. An immigration policy that accepts young workers would appear to be a simple solution to the challenge, by increas...
    Hardback (January 2006)

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  4. Add to Wish List The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital

    The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital

    Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
    This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...
    Paperback (2005)

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    Hardback (2004)

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  5. Add to Wish List Policy Analysis and Public Choice

    Policy Analysis and Public Choice

    William A. Niskanen
    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: pol...
    Paperback (2005)

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    Hardback (1998)

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  6. Add to Wish List Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government

    Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government

    William A. Niskanen
    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...
    Paperback (2005)

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    Hardback (2004)

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  7. Add to Wish List Property Rights, Planning and Markets

    Property Rights, Planning and Markets

    Chris Webster, Lawrence W.-C. Lai
    This book represents a major innovation in the institutional analysis of cities and their planning, management and governance. Using concepts of transaction costs and property rights, the work shows systematically how urban order evolves...
    Paperback (2005)

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    Hardback (2003)

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  8. Add to Wish List Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations

    Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations

    Edited by Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel
    Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its ver...
    Hardback (January 2005)

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  9. Add to Wish List Changing Institutions in the European Union

    Changing Institutions in the European Union

    Edited by Giuseppe Eusepi, Friedrich Schneider
    This book makes a valuable, analytical contribution to recent debates on the ongoing institutional changes occurring within the European Union. It provides a comprehensive and diverse insight into a variety of areas, including in-depth s...
    Hardback (2004)

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  10. Add to Wish List Equality, Rights and the Autonomous Self

    Equality, Rights and the Autonomous Self

    Timothy P. Roth
    Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self’s ‘natural rights’ against others’ moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist’s utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of ‘s...
    Hardback (2004)

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  11. Add to Wish List The New Democratic Federalism For Europe

    The New Democratic Federalism For Europe

    Bruni S. Frey, Reiner Eichenberger
    This innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future ...
    Paperback (2004)

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    Hardback (1999)

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  12. Add to Wish List Capitalism and Democracy

    Capitalism and Democracy

    Dennis C. Mueller
    This distinguished collection of Dennis Mueller’s papers discusses the economic challenges faced as a result of events in the latter third of the twentieth century; the formation of the European Union, the collapse of Communism in East E...
    Hardback (2003)

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