This article--designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered--is divided into three main sections, "historical origins," the "modern founders of MPE," and a brief description of some "current issues" studied by public...

This article - designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered - is divided into three main sections, "historical origins," the "modern founders of MPE," and a brief description of some "current issues" studied by...

Key Features:Comprehensive collection of classical authors ranging from Xenophon, Plato of 500 BC to Allyn Young and Friedrich Hayek of the 20th centuryCarefully selected body of masterpieces, each of truly lasting standing in the history of ideasThe first book of its kind in the...

pt. 1. Pre-Smith analyses -- pt. 2. The Smithian economics of the division of labor -- pt. 3. Marx on the division of labor in capitalist manufacturing and the Hayekian problem of knowledge -- pt. 4. Economic development framed in the economics of the division of labor.