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Ranging from authoritative seminal pieces to striking contemporary papers, the readings in this volume explore the complex intersections between politics and economics from the perspectives of both disciplines.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments. Introduction.. Part I: Roots. 1. Extracts from Leviathan (1651) (Thomas Hobbes). 2. Of the First Principles of Government (1758) (David Hume). Part II: Institutions, Markets, and Political Power. 3. The Place of Institutions in the Economy: a Theoretical Perspective (1998) (Kenneth J. Arrow). 4. Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory (1996) (Oliver Williamson). 5. The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: the Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs (1990)Paul R. Milgrom, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast). 6. Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution (1992) (Avner Greif). 7. Implications from teh Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions (1980) (William H. Riker). Part III: Alternative Conceptions of the State. 8. The Coase Theorem and the Theory of the State (1973) (James M. Buchanan). 9. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development (1993) (Mancur Olson). 10. Will Free Trade with Political Science Put Normative Economists out of Work (1997) (Brendan O'Flaherty and Jagdish Bhagwati). 11. On Misunderstanding Government: an Analysis of the Art of Policy Advice (1997) (Kaushik Basu). Part IV: Government and Agency. 12. Multitask Principal Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design (1991) (Bengt Holmstrom and Paul R. Milgrom). 13. The Internal Organization of Government (1994) (Jean Tirole). 14. Power of Incentives in Private versus Public Organizations (1997), and extracts from The Making of Economic Policy (1996) (Avinash Dixit). Part V: The Political Process, Voting, and Public Choice. 15. The Statics and Dynamics of Party Ideologies (1957) (Anthony Downs). 16. Rationality and Social Choice (1995) (Amartya Sen). 17. An Economic Model of Representative Democracy (1997) (Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate). 18. Distributive Politics and Economic Growth (1994) (Alberto Alesina and Dani Rodrick). 19. Is Inequality Harmful for Growth (1994) (Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini). 20. Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State (1999) (Assar Lindbeck, Sten Nyberg, and Jorgen W. Weibull). Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780631223320
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Series Title: Wiley Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics
  • Weight: 853 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0631223320
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jul 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Width: 175 mm


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