Public Choice Theory
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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...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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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 ... -
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Political Economy and Public Finance
Edited by Stanley L. Winer, Hirofumi Shibata
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which polit...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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![The Economics of Public Choice, Second Edition]()
The Economics of Public Choice, Second Edition
Patrick A. McNutt
In this fully revised second edition of a well-regarded and popular text, Patrick McNutt presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public choice. The author evaluates a range of public choice con...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Ethics as Social Science
Leland B. Yeager
With this important book, esteemed economist Leland B. Yeager grounds moral and political philosophy in the requirements of a well-functioning society, one whose members reap the gains from peaceful cooperation while pursuing their own d...eBook:Find out more$55.96
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Not Just for the Money
Bruno S. Frey
In Not Just for the Money Professor Frey challenges traditional economic theory and argues that people do not act in expectation of monetary gain alone, nor do they work solely because they are paid. Furthermore, the author claims that h... -
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BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS
William A. Niskanen
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 th... -
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PROPERTY AS A GUARANTOR OF LIBERTY
James M. Buchanan
Defences for regimes of private property ownership are normally grounded on economic efficiency arguments. In Property as a Guarantor of Liberty a different approach is taken, one that grounds the defence of private property ownership o... -
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RENT SEEKING
Gordon Tullock
This is a succinct but comprehensive account of the research programme in rent-seeking launched in 1967 by Gordon Tullock’s argument that the availability of monopoly rents through government encourages self-seeking individuals to waste ... -
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PARCHMENT, GUNS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Richard E. Wagner
In this far-reaching and insightful monograph, Richard Wagner exposes the failure of the United States constitution to overcome the tyranny of the majority so feared by the Founding Fathers.
