This book - the second of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides...

Agenda für wachstumsstärkende Strukturreformen -- Reformstau -- Modifizierung des Homo Oeconomicus -- Determinanten zur Akzeptanz wachstumsstärkender Strukturreformen -- Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen.

Der internationale Angleichungsprozess der Rechnungslegung -- Die Bewertungskonzeptionen nach US-GAAP, IFRS und HGB und ihre Entwicklung im Zuge des internationalen Angleichungsprozesses unter besonderer Beachtung des „fair value“ -- Der Forschungsansatz der politischen Ökonomie der...

This book presents an overview of the economics and politics implemented in the European Union and especially the Eurozone during the crisis of 2008-2012. Although it focuses on these four years, the analysis starts from the establishment of the European Union and covers the period up to the...

History: Athenian Democracy -- Echoes of Democracy in Ancient Rome -- Revival of Democracy in Italian Mediaval City-Republics -- Enlightenment and the End of Traditional Democracy -- Modernity and Schism in Understanding Democracy -- Theory: Direct Democracy -- Dictatorship and Democracy --...

Innovationen als treibende Kräfte für die Entwicklung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft -- Neuerungen in der Wirtschaft: Das Konzept „Innovation“, wirtschaftliche Dynamik und Innovationsprozesse in Netzwerken -- Erfindungen, Schutzstrategien und volkswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen -- Diffusion...

This book contains essays in honor of Charles B. Blankart on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The contributors include prominent scholars from the discipline of public finance and public choice. The essays include such topics as taxation, public choice, and regulation, and thus give testimony...

to the Handbook on Approval Voting -- History of Approval Voting -- Acclamation Voting in Sparta: An Early Use of Approval Voting -- Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting -- Axiomatic Theory -- Collective Choice for Simple Preferences -- Axiomatizations of Approval...

Representations of constitutions -- to Part I -- Constitutions, effectivity functions, and game forms -- Nash consistent representations -- Acceptable representations -- Strongly consistent representations -- Nash consistent representation through lottery models -- On the continuity of...

From Black’s Advice and Arrow’s Theorem to the Gibbard-Satterthewaite Result -- The Impact of Forcing Preference Rankings When Indifference Exists -- Connections and Implications of the Ostrogorski Paradox for Spatial Voting Models -- Maximal Domains for Maskin Monotone Pareto Optimal and...