Public Choice

The Economic Structure of the Law

Richard A. Posner, Francesco Parisi

Judge Richard A. Posner is internationally regarded as a leading exponent and a founding father of the law and economics movement. This volume draws together a selection of his most important papers on the methodology and the theory of l...

Hardback (February 2001)

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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...

Hardback (2000)

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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...

Hardback (1999)

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Limiting Leviathan

Edited by Donald P. Racheter, Richard E. Wagner

The enormous growth of the State occurring over much of this century has led the authors of this book to re-examine the proper relationship between the American people and their government.

Hardback (1999)

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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...

Hardback (December 1998)

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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...

Hardback (December 1998)

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public choice and environmental regulation

Gert T. Svendsen

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen offers a detailed and comprehensive study of two alternative methods for controlling CO2 emissions – tradable permits and taxation – using examples of varying success from the United States and Europe.

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Limited Government, Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law

Edited by Norman Barry

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.

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Political Theory and Public Choice

Anthony Downs

In this collection, Anthony Downs shows how a rational analyst can apply common sense and the lessons of practical experience to the most fundamental and difficult aspects of the political theory of democracy. Written in easily accessib...

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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...

Paperback (1998)

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Hardback (1997)

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classical liberalism and civil society

Edited by Charles K. Rowley

This impressive book brings together four essays, which along with an insightful introduction from Charles Rowley, provide a robust defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern ‘civil’ society.

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