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...

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...

Einleitung und Zielsetzung -- Zentrale Erkenntnisse der Verhaltensökonomik -- Staatsfinanzierung und Verhaltensökonomik -- Staatsausgaben und Verhaltensökonomik: Psychologie der öffentlichen Ausgabentätigkeit -- Markteingriffe und Verhaltensökonomik: Psychologie der Rechtfertigung und...

Einführung -- Einführung -- Allokationstheoretische Grundlagen -- Ziele staatlicher Wirtschaftspolitik -- Allokationstheorie und Wirtschaftspolitik -- Grundlagen der politischen Ökonomie -- Grundmodelle der direkten und der indirekten Demokratie -- Theorie wirtschaftspolitischer Reformen --...

Beratung im Incomingtourismus -- A -- Begründungen für den staatlichen Eingriff in die touristischen Güter -- Die Ausgangssituation im Rems-Murr-Kreis und die tourismuspolitische Lenkung im Landkreis im Hinblick auf die Begründungsarten -- Beteiligte staatliche Ebenen -- Leistungsträger --...

This work examines the political economy of exchange-rate policies in the eastward expansion of the eurozone. Analysis shows that prospective members of the EMU are likely to pass on some costs of convergence to the current EMU members. The mechanism is an altered exchange-rate policy that...

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the most important area of economic freedom...

This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking 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,...