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![BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS]()
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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Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy
Richard E. Wagner
In Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy, Richard E. Wagner offers an approach to welfare economics and economic policy appropriate for a classically liberal society. -
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TRADE PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES
Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, Richard E. Wagner
Trade Protection in the United States analyzes the history of US trade policy to explain why interest groups are able to foster protectionist policies despite the advantages which free trade offers consumers. The authors also explain why... -
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THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RENT SEEKING
Edited by Robert D. Tollison, Roger D. Congleton
This collection brings together the classic papers on the economics of rent seeking. These papers date from Gordon Tullock’s original 1967 paper which first put forth the idea that the pursuit of transfers was socially costly. Other cl... -
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![THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS]()
THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Edited by Steven G. Medema
Ronald Coase, the 1991 Nobel laureate in Economics, has had a profound impact on the way that economists and others view both the firm and the relationship between the legal and economic systems. This authoritative collection brings to... -
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PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES
Fred E. Foldvary
Rejecting the market-failure hypothesis, Dr Foldvary argues that an entrepreneur can provide collective goods by consensual community agreements. Instead of focusing particular services, as previous studies have done, this book concerns... -
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CONDORCET
Edited by Iain McLean, Fiona Hewitt
The Marquis de Condorcet (1743–94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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the public choice approach to politics
Dennis C. Mueller
The Public Choice Approach to Politics presents some of Dennis Mueller''s most important contributions to public choice and public economics.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy
Edited by Charles K. Rowley
Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom. At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist–socialist ideas, this book... -
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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.
