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Cover An Economic Analysis of Public Law
An Economic Analysis of Public Law
Demos and Agora
George Dellis
This original and insightful book considers the ways in which public law, which emphasises legality (the Demos), and economics, a science oriented towards the markets (the Agora), intertwine. Throughout, George Dellis argues that the concepts of legality and efficiency should not be perceived separately.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
12 Mar 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375796
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Law 2021
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 Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Explaining the Flight of the Bumblebee
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen and Gert T. Svendsen
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and those who want ‘money for nothing’. However, the national personality is characterized both by cooperation in everyday life and the numerous ‘hard-riders’ who make extraordinary contributions. Applying Bourdieuconomics, the authors focus on contemporary case studies to explain how social capital and trust are used to counteract free-riding and enable the flight of the Scandinavian welfare state ‘bumblebee’.
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Monograph Book
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26 Feb 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785365584
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Social and Political Science 2016
Cover The Politics of Persuasion
The Politics of Persuasion
Should Lobbying be Regulated in the EU?
Urs S. Brandt and Gert T. Svendsen
The EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free trade, in accordance with the original purpose of the Treaty of Rome. Without the regulation of lobbyists to try and prevent undue political persuasion, there is a greater risk of abuse in the form of corruption, subsidies and trade barriers, which will come at the expense of consumers, tax payers and competitiveness.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Jan 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782546702
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Social and Political Science 2016
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 Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics
Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics
Editors: Roger W. Garrison and Norman Barry
The Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics provides an in-depth treatment of Friedrich August von Hayek’s economic thought from his technical economics of the 1920s and 1930s to his broader views on the spontaneous order of a free society. Taken together, the chapters show evidence both of continuity of thought and of significant changes in focus.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
31 Oct 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857931115
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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 A Handbook of Alternative Theories of Public Economics
A Handbook of Alternative Theories of Public Economics
Editors: Francesco Forte, Ram Mudambi, and Pietro Maria Navarra
This comprehensive and thought-provoking Handbook reviews public sector economics from pluralist perspectives that either complement or reach beyond mainstream views. The book takes a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, drawing on economic elements in the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, history and law.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
28 Mar 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781004715
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Economics 2014