The Elgar Companion to Public Choice
- ISBN-10
- 1849806039
- ISBN-13
- 9781849806039
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 624
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-01
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Authors
- William F. Shughart, Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini
Description
'This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.' – Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice. The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism. With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.
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