The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Volume 1

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Charles Rowley, Friedrich Schneider
Springer Science & Business Media, Jul 6, 2004 - Business & Economics - 1105 pages
The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the subject known as public choice. However, the title would not convey suf- ciently the breadth of the Encyclopedia’s contents which can be summarized better as the fruitful interchange of economics, political science and moral philosophy on the basis of an image of man as a purposive and responsible actor who pursues his own objectives as efficiently as possible. This fruitful interchange between the fields outlined above existed during the late eighteenth century during the brief period of the Scottish Enlightenment when such great scholars as David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith contributed to all these fields, and more. However, as intell- tual specialization gradually replaced broad-based scholarship from the m- nineteenth century onwards, it became increasingly rare to find a scholar making major contributions to more than one. Once Alfred Marshall defined economics in neoclassical terms, as a n- row positive discipline, the link between economics, political science and moral philosophy was all but severed and economists redefined their role into that of ‘the humble dentist’ providing technical economic information as inputs to improve the performance of impartial, benevolent and omniscient governments in their attempts to promote the public interest. This indeed was the dominant view within an economics profession that had become besotted by the economics of John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson immediately following the end of the Second World War.
 

Contents

Charles K Rowley 3
26
An Introduction
32
Are Vote and Popularity Functions Economically Correct?
49
Constitutional Political Economy
60
Corruption
67
Dictatorship
77
Environmental Politics
91
Arthur J H C Schram
102
Public Finance
252
Scholarly Legacy of Mancur Olson
284
Spatial Theory
305
William H Riker
321
ANDERSON Lisa Reneé
328
BESLEYTimothy John
334
CAIN Michael J G
340
CREW Michael Anthony
346

Interest Group Behavior and Influence
118
Departure from Free Trade
129
Harbinger of
146
Monetary Policy and Central Bank Behavior
159
Positive
173
Public Choice from the Perspective of Economics
191
Public Choice Theory from the Perspective of
214
Public Choice from the Perspective of Philosophy
235
DA EMPOLI Domenico
347
HOLLER Manfred Joseph
361
LÓPEZ Edward John
373
ROMERThomas
386
SMITHVernon L
396
VACHRIS Michelle Albert
409
Hillman 129
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