The Economic Foundations Of Government

Author : Randall G. Holcombe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349132306
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Foundations of Government written by Randall G. Holcombe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government is analysed as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power. This approach shows why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive power, and why even the most powerful government benefits from constitutional rules constraining the government's power. This foundation is used to examine a wide range of government activities, including its protection of rights, its military activities, and democratic political institutions.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Political Economy written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Fishkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424740X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution written by Joseph Fishkin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.” —James Pope, Washington Post “Fishkin and Forbath’s accessible work serves as both history lesson and political playbook, offering the Left an underutilized—and perhaps counterintuitive—tool in the present-day fight against social and economic injustice: the Constitution.” —Benjamin Morse, Jacobin “Rousing and authoritative...attempt[s] to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality...Makes even the present court’s capture by the ideological right a compelling platform for a revived social-democratic constitutional politics.” —New Republic Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the “republican form of government” the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it had almost nothing to say about this threat. But as this revolutionary retelling of constitutional history shows, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even judges working in this “democracy-of-opportunity” tradition understood that the Constitution imposes a duty on legislatures to thwart oligarchy and promote a broad distribution of wealth and political power. These ideas led Jacksonians to fight special economic privileges for the few, Populists to try to break up monopoly power, and Progressives to fight for the constitutional right to form a union. But today, as we enter a new Gilded Age, this tradition in progressive American economic and political thought lies dormant. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution begins the work of recovering it and exploring its profound implications for our deeply unequal society and badly damaged democracy.

Author : Kaushik Basu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198296711
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Political Economy written by Kaushik Basu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to understand why some economies succeed and some fail, and why some communities prosper while others stagnate, so economics must be seen as embedded in politics and society. It is a study of this embeddedness.

Author : Edgar Augustus Jerome Johnson
Publisher : Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816606641
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of American Economic Freedom written by Edgar Augustus Jerome Johnson and published by Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Economics written by Richard B. McKenzie and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers from a conference sponsored by the Heritage Foundation."A Heritage Foundation book"--Jacket. Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Eric A. Posner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067630
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Foundations of International Law written by Eric A. Posner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchange of goods and ideas among nations, cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime pose formidable questions for international law. Two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these problems from a rational choice perspective and describe conditions under which international law succeeds or fails.

Author : Charles Austin Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Basis of Politics written by Charles Austin Beard and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Breton
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202365794
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Theory of Representative Government written by Albert Breton and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a theory capable of explaining the patterns of public expenditures and taxation that occur under representative government. Economists and political scientists have come to realize that issues of public policy and public finance cannot be solved on the naive assumption that these are problems tackled by a government that exists only to serve the public good. Instead, government must be understood as one of the major economic institutions of society, one that behaves like more familiar economic institutions--the household and the firm--though the market it confronts is a market for policies rather than for goods and services. Albert Breton's pathbreaking work remains important in taking us toward a theory of representative government that enables an understanding of the observed behavior of political institutions. The author's analysis is cast in a relatively simple demand, supply and demand-supply-equilibrium framework, using the tools of marginal and stability analysis to explain the forces that influence and determine the flow of resources as they are allocated between competing ends in the public sector. The book presents a model of demand by citizens, who are assumed to be maximizing their desires for specific public policies and private goods, and a model of the supply of public policies by politicians and bureaucrats, who are assumed to be maximizing the probability of their re-election and the size of their budgets. Breton defines government policies and the institutional framework for collective choices in terms that render them amenable to further analysis. The main accomplishment of Breton's theory is that it provides the ability to analyze the interaction of individuals and generates testable propositions about the behavior of these individuals as well as about the behavior of public expenditures and taxation in more aggregative terms. In this way the book will be useful to students of economics, economists, and those interested in economic theory. Albert Breton is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto. He was once director of research for The Social Research Group in Montreal. His articles have been widely published in major journals and some of his recent books include Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics and Political Extremism and Rationality (with Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe) and Bijuralism: An Economic Approach (with Michael J. Trebilcock).

Author : Miguel A. Centeno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107158494
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States in the Developing World written by Miguel A. Centeno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how states address the often conflicting challenges of development, order, and inclusion.