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Cover Toward a Political Economy of the Commons
Toward a Political Economy of the Commons
Simple Rules for Sustainability
Meina Cai
,
Ilia Murtazashvili
,
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
, and
Raufhon Salahodjaev
Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global environment.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
14 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374324
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Economics 2022
Cover The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit
The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit
Cryptosecession
Trent J. MacDonald
Territorial political organisation forms the backbone of western liberal democracies. However, political economists are increasingly aware of how this form of government neglects the preferences of citizens, resulting in dramatic conflicts. The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit explores the theoretical possibility of ‘unbundling’ government functions and decentralising territorial governance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Jun 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979382
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Economics 2019
Cover Handbook of Social Choice and Voting
Handbook of Social Choice and Voting
Editors:
Jac C. Heckelman
and
Nicholas R. Miller
This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Dec 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783470730
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Economics 2015
Cover Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking
Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking
Editors:
Roger D. Congleton
and
Arye L. Hillman
The quest for benefit from existing wealth or by seeking privileged benefit through influence over policy is known as rent seeking. Much rent seeking activity involves government and political decisions and is therefore in the domain of political economy, although it can also take place in personal relations and within firms and bureaucracies. Rent seeking, which involves the unproductive use of resources, is however primarily associated with policies that create rents as well as rent extraction or political benefit for the creators of rents. The contributions in this outstanding volume provide an accompaniment or “companion” to the literature on rent seeking and the related political economy of rent creation and extraction. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, demonstrate the centrality of rent-related incentives to the study of economics, politics, culture, public administration and history.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Mar 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782544944
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Economics 2015
Cover The Political Economy of Aerospace Industries
The Political Economy of Aerospace Industries
A Key Driver of Growth and International Competitiveness?
Keith Hartley
The Political Economy of Aerospace Industries will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in industrial and defence economics, public choice and policy courses. It will also be of interest to researchers, policy-makers and those involved in the industry in various different capacities.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Nov 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782544968
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Economics 2014
Cover Economists and the State
Economists and the State
What Went Wrong
Timothy P. Roth
Adam Smith is widely regarded as the ‘founder of modern economics’. The author shows, however, that Smith’s procedurally based, consequence-detached political economy, an approach shared by America’s Founders, finds no expression in the economist’s utilitarian, procedurally-detached theory of the state. This ‘wrong turn’ has meant that, if economists are ill-equipped to address an expanding federal enterprise in which utilitarian considerations trump the Smithian/Madisonian idea that means and ends must be morally and constitutionally constrained, they are also ineffectual bystanders as growing institutional skepticism, demands for ‘social justice’ and metastasizing rights claims threaten our self-governing republic.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 May 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781951934
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Economics 2014
Cover 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.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Apr 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781000656
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Law 2010 and before
Cover The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics
The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics
Values, Markets and the State
Editors:
Geoffrey Brennan
and
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.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Nov 2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849801904
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Political Failure by Agreement
Political Failure by Agreement
Learning Liberalism and the Welfare State
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, go far beyond a limited role of the state. Recent difficulties of reforming the welfare state provide evidence that political preferences are at odds with liberal economic policy in numerous cases. This fact challenges a political conception which demands a limited state role but also claims that citizens’ preferences ‘as they are’ should determine the content of policies. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can be brought into line with political liberalism.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 May 2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848441569
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover 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 modern liberalism and the economic theory to which it is conjoined – social welfare theory.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 May 2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847205520
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Economics 2010 and before