Public Choice Theory

  1. Add to Wish List Tax Evasion and the Shadow Economy

    Tax Evasion and the Shadow Economy

    Edited by Michael Pickhardt, Aloys Prinz
    Leading scholars examine recent evidence from theoretical and empirical research on tax compliance and tax evasion, and provide an in-depth analysis of underlying methods. Strategies to fight tax evasion are evaluated and the motivations...
    Hardback (September 2012)

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  2. Add to Wish List The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound

    The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound

    Edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr
    In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine ...
    Hardback (November 2010)

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  3. Add to Wish List Political Economy of Law

    Political Economy of Law

    Patrick A. McNutt
    In this insightful book, Patrick McNutt explores the meaning of law within a political environment, and advances many new ideas and concepts first addressed in his earlier book Law, Economics and Antitrust.
    Hardback (June 2010)

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  4. Add to Wish List Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance

    Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance

    Svetozar Pejovich, Enrico Colombatto
    Capitalism has outperformed all other systems and maintained a positive growth rate since it began. Svetozar Pejovich makes the case within this book that a major reason for the success of capitalism lies in the efficiency-friendly incen...
    Paperback (February 2010)

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    Hardback (2008)

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  5. Add to Wish List The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics

    The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics

    Edited by Geoffrey Brennan, Giuseppe Eusepi
    This book makes a rational and eloquent case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. It expands upon themes concerned with esteem, self-esteem, emotional bonding between agents, expressive concerns, and moral requirements.
    Hardback (January 2010)

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  6. Add to Wish List Taiwan’s Long Road to Democracy

    Taiwan’s Long Road to Democracy

    Katutugu Yoshida, Toshie Habu, Peter Hayes
    This edited translation of Katutugu Yoshida’s Jiyuno Nigaiaji analyses the gradual process of reform in Taiwan over the past 100 years. It pays particular attention to the dilemmas, compromises and pitfalls that have faced reformists as ...
    Hardback (September 2009)

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  7. Add to Wish List Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance

    Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance

    Richard E. Wagner
    This book advances a social-theoretic treatment of public finance, which contrasts with the typical treatment of government as an agent of intervention into a market economy. To start, Richard Wagner construes government not as an agent ...
    Paperback (2009)

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    Hardback (2007)

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  8. Add to Wish List Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking

    Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking

    Gordon Tullock
    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 extern...
    Paperback (September 2008)

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    Hardback (April 2005)

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  9. Add to Wish List Political Failure by Agreement

    Political Failure by Agreement

    Gerhard Wegner
    The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, ...
    Hardback (July 2008)

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  10. Add to Wish List Ralph Harris in His Own Words, the Selected Writings of Lord Harris

    Ralph Harris in His Own Words, the Selected Writings of Lord Harris

    Ralph Harris, Colin Robinson
    When Lord Harris of High Cross (Ralph Harris) died, in October 2006, at the age of 81, the tributes to him described him as one of the ‘men who changed Britain’. Friends and opponents alike acknowledged that Ralph, in his role as General...
    Hardback (May 2008)

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  11. Add to Wish List The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States

    The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States

    Mary Reintsma
    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 Politica...
    Hardback (2007)

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  12. Add to Wish List Morality, Political Economy and American Constitutionalism

    Morality, Political Economy and American Constitutionalism

    Timothy P. Roth
    The Founders of the American Republic set up a remarkable experiment in self-government. Today, debates rage as to the philosophical legacy of this ongoing experiment. In this fascinating study, Timothy Roth offers a critical analysis of...
    Hardback (2007)

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