Es handelt sich bei dem vorgestellten Werk um eine staatstheoretische und staatswissenschaftliche Untersuchung, die auf der Kategorie öffentlicher Güter beruht. Damit ist bereits ihr Maßstab bezeichnet und das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen privaten und öffentlichen Begriffen encadriert. Es...

Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments...

This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance. Public non-market production makes up from a quarter to more...

Inwiefern lassen sich soziale Tatbestände in Gesellschaften von Wildbeutern und tribal organisierten Bauern/Viehzüchtern mit Hilfe von Spieltheorie, Institutionen- und Organisationsökonomik, "Public choice"- Theorie und der Evolutionsökonomik besser erklären als mit dem herkömmlichen...

This extensive book explores in detail a wide range of topics within the public choice and constitutional political economy tradition, providing a comprehensive overview of current work across the field. The expert contributions are underpinned by the notion of moving economic thinking away from...

Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new...

There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role. The purpose of this book is to...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Impact of The Calculus of Consent -- Chapter 2: Institutions and Constitutions: The Economic World of James M. Buchanan -- Chapter 3: On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock -- Chapter 4: Buchanan on Freedom -- Chapter 5: Choice vs...