Public Choice Theory
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The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics
Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus
This authoritative and comprehensive reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all th... -
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Public Goods and Private Wants
Simon Kemp
How valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. -
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Economic Behavior and Distributional Choice
Harold M. Hochman
Economic Behavior and Distributional Choice brings together, for the first time, Harold M. Hochman’s key papers on income redistribution and policy in one accessible volume. The introduction describes the genesis and development of a ne... -
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The European Monetary Union in a Public Choice Perspective
Jennifer C. Martin-Das
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 disun... -
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The Ethics and the Economics of Minimalist Government
Timothy P. Roth
Because it is technically flawed and morally bankrupt, the author argues, the economist’s consequence-based, procedurally detached theory of the state has contributed to the growth of government. As part of the Kantian–Rawlsian contracta...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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Rules, Choice and Strategy
Ram Mudambi, Pietro Maria Navarra, Giuseppe Sobbrio
This topical book analyses the change of electoral rules in Italy from proportional representation toward plurality. While Italy is used as the illustrative case, the analysis has far-ranging theoretical and practical implications, and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets
Flip Palda
Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabili...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Democratic Institutions
Peter Moser
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 po... -
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Explaining Constitutional Change
Stefan Voigt
This book aims to extend the current research and debate in constitutional economics by using a positive economics approach. Born out of discontent with the current state in constitutional economics, this book presents an inquiry in the... -
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The Measurement of Voting Power
Dan S. Felsenthal, Moshé Machover
This book is the first of its kind: a monograph devoted to a systematic critical examination and exposition of the theory of a priori voting power. This important branch of social-choice theory overlaps with game theory and is concerned...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of the New Deal
Jim F. Couch, William F. Shughart II
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 Roos...