Beschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeEssays.- Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy.- Public Choice: An Introduction.- Are Vote and Popularity Functions Economically Correct?.- Constitutional Political Economy.- Corruption.- Dictatorship.- Environmental Politics.- Experimental Public Choice.- Gordon Tullock at Four Score Years: An Evaluation.- Interest Group Behavior and Influence.- International Trade Policy: Departure from Free Trade.- James M. Buchanan.- Milton Friedman, 1912: Harbinger of the Public Choice Revolution.- Monetary Policy and Central Bank Behavior.- The Political Economy of Taxation: Positive and Normative Analysis When Collective Choice Matters.- Public Choice from the Perspective of Economics.- Public Choice from the Perspective of the History of Thought.- Public Choice Theory from the Perspective of Law.- Public Choice from the Perspective of Philosophy.- Public Choice from the Perspective of Sociology.- Public Finance.- Regulation and Antitrust.- Scholarly Legacy of Mancur Olson.- Shadow Economy.- Social Choice, Contracts and Logrolling.- Spatial Theory.- Trade Liberalization and Globalization.- William H. Riker.- Concepts.- Academia.- Al-Qaeda.- Alternative Voting Methods.- Altruism.- The Anatomy of Political Representation.- Approval Voting.- Arbitration and Bargaining.- Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.- An 'Austrian' Perspective on Public Choice.- Autocracy.- Autocratic Succession.- Bicameralism.- Blackmail.- Black's Single-Peakedness Condition.- Budgetary Processes.- Budget Deficits.- Bureaucratic Discretion.- Campaign Contributions and Campaign Finance.- Campaign Finance 1.- Campaign Finance 2.- Central Banks.- Chicago Political Economy.- The Clayton Act.- Coalitions and Power Indices.- Coalitions and Social Choice.- Coase Theorem and Political Markets.- Coercion.- Collective Action Under the Articles of Confederation.- Committee Assignments.- Committee Jurisdictions and PAC Contributions.- Committees in Legislatures.- Commons and Anticommons.- Constitution.- Constitutional Frameworks and Economic Progress.- The Constitution of the European Union.- Constitutional Political Economy.- The Contemporary Political Economy Approach to Bureaucracy.- Contractarianism.- Corruption 1.- Corruption 2.- Cost and Choice.- The Cost Disease of the Personal Services.- Customary Law.- The Demand-Revealing Process.- Deregulation of Postal Service.- Dictators and Social Contracts.- Direct Democracy.- Discrimination.- Dynamic Inconsistency.- Economic Freedom and its Measurement.- Economic Freedom and Political Freedom.- Economic Regulation.- The Economic Theory of Clubs.- Economists Versus the Public on Economic Policy.- Education and the State.- Efficiency of Democracy.- Efficiency of Democracy?.- The Efficiency of the Common Law Hypothesis.- Elected Versus Appointed Regulators.- Election Models.- Electoral College.- Electoral Competition in Mixed Systems of Representation.- The Elusive Median Voter.- Emerging from the Hobbesian Jungle.- Endogenous Morality.- Enron.- Environmental Politics and Economic Development.- The Euro.- European Political Integration.- Evolution of Institutions.- The Evolution of Law.- Experimental Economics and Public Choice.- Experimental Public Choice.- Expressive Voting and Redistribution.- Fair Division.- Fame and Politics.- Federal Reserve System.- Forecasting Presidential Elections in the United States.- Game Theory.- Game Theory in Public Choice.- Generality and the Efficiency of Government Decision Making.- Group Roles in Evolution and Cognition.- Growth of Local Government in the United States.- The Growth of Public Expenditure.- The Growth of the Relative Size of Government.- Heresthetics and the Evolution of the Us Constitution.- Homo Economicus.- Human Evolution and Political Behavior.- Ideology.- The Importance of the Middle in Spatial Politics.- Initiative and Referendum.- Institutions of Trade Protection.- Interest Groups 1.- Interest Groups 2.- International Game of Power.- International Organization.- Int
