We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...

This paper provides partial identification results for latent utility models that satisfy an invariance property on unobservables such as exchangeability. We employ a simple revealed preference argument to "difference out'' unobservables and show that this gives identifying inequalities for...

George Orwell's famous fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty Four were intended to advocate democratic socialism by portraying undemocratic forms of socialism as totalitarian. For Orwell, democracy was a political institution which would limit the abuse of power. But there are several...

The criticism of democratic socialism by F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom (2007 [1944]) and John Jewkes's The New Ordeal by Planning (1968 [1948]) differs crucially from more recent arguments against market socialism made by Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1994). The Hayek-Jewkes argument...

The Public Choice criticism of democratic socialism by F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom (2007 [1944]) and John Jewkes's The New Ordeal by Planning (1968 [1948]) differs crucially from more recent Public Choice criticism of market socialism by Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1994) and deserves...

The Public Choice criticism of democratic socialism by F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom (2007 [1944]) and John Jewkes's The New Ordeal by Planning (1968 [1948]) differs crucially from more recent Public Choice criticism of market socialism by Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1994) and deserves...

Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1994) have used Public Choice analysis to criticize market socialism. Peter J. Boettke (1995) and Peter T. Leeson and Boettke (2002) have argued that F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom (2007 [1944]) constituted a form of Public Choice analysis as well, in...

Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1994) have used Public Choice analysis to criticize market socialism. Peter J. Boettke (1995) and Peter T. Leeson and Boettke (2002) have argued that F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom (2007 [1944]) constituted a form of Public Choice analysis as well. Boettke...

Milton Friedman (1962) is associated with the claim that political and economic freedom cannot be distinguished (cf. Lawson and Clark 2010), using the famous example that there can be no freedom of speech where the government owns the printing presses. Less well-known is F. A. Hayek's example,...

Discussions of democratic socialism have focused on whether that system is compatible with domestic civil liberties. Less attention has been paid to its foreign policy implications. Despite the widespread acceptance of the democratic peace hypothesis, democratic socialism would be incompatible...