We study a simple model of tariff wars and trade deals in which government revenue collection and disbursement uses … government may win a tariff war, and fully cooperative trade deals where countries lower tariffs but do not eliminate them, even …

as sources of evidence about the changing politics of the welfare state. It explains why health care should be central to …

, allowing it to explain some so far little understood differences between markets and government. The policy implications … strengthen the case against national planning, selective industrial policies, and government ownership of enterprises, but weaken …

's institutions ('rules of the game'). Two stylized institutional variants of market selection and one of government selection are …

the market mechanism and resulting from the infant local markets as well as from the feeble role of the government and … reflect the views of social scholars like Janos Kornai about the role of government. The paper tackles the tasks that …

Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals … on the scope of government intervention. …

preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic … countries, but there is no relationship between polarization and the size of government in undemocratic countries. The results … ; social cohesion ; size of government ; redistribution …