The Elgar Companion to Public Choice

Edited by William Shughart and Laura Razzolini

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume. It contains state-of-the-art discussions of both old and contemporary problems, including new work by the founding fathers as well as contributions by a new generation of younger scholars.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
ISBN: 9781852785406
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The old and new public choice: Chicago versus Virginia

William C. Mitchell

Ch 2 Property rights: private and political institutions

Louis De Alessi

Ch 3 The logic of collective action

Omar Azfar

Ch 4 Social choice theory

Michael J.G. Cain

Ch 5 Constitutional choice

Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin

Ch 6 Monarchies, hereditary and non-hereditary

Gordon Tullock

Ch 7 The anatomy of political representation: direct democracy, parliamentary democracy, and representative democracy

Tim Sass

Ch 8 Institutions, durability, and the value of political transactions

W. Crain

Ch 9 Voting

Michael Munger

Ch 10 On legislatures and legislative efficiency wages

Robert McCormick and Chad S. Turner

Ch 11 Bureaucracy

William A. Niskanen

Ch 12 Rational choice theories of bureaucratic control and performance

Kelly H. Chang, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo and Barry Weingast

Ch 13 The Judiciary

Gary M. Anderson

Ch 14 Money

Kevin Grier

Ch 15 Ideology

Paul Rubin

Ch 16 Clubs and club goods

Gary M. Anderson, William Shughart and Robert Tollison

Ch 17 The interest-group theory of government

Robert Ekelund and Robert Tollison

Ch 18 Rent seeking and rent extraction

Fred S. McChesney

Ch 19 Public choice and public choice

Randall Holcombe

Ch 20 Politics and the macro economy

Richard Wagner

Ch 21 Monetary policy

Mark Toma

Ch 22 The politics of government growth

Roger Congleton

Ch 23 Is trust in government compatible with trustworthy government?

Dwight R. Lee and Jeff R. Clark

Ch 24 Public choice as an experimental science

Lisa R. Anderson

Ch 25 The public choice approach to economic history

Robert Ekelund and Audrey B. Davidson

Ch 26 Law and economics

Bruce Benson

Ch 27 Public choice and the environment

Bruce Yandle

Ch 28 Institutions, Policy, and economic growth

Gerald W. Scully

Ch 29 Public choice and economic growth

Randall Holcombe

Ch 30 The international economy in public choice perspective

Charles Rowley

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