The Elgar Companion to Public Choice

Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
Notes on editors......Page 14
List of contributors......Page 16
Preface......Page 20
Introduction: Public choice at the millennium......Page 22
PART I METHODOLOGY......Page 44
1 The old and new public choice: Chicago versus Virginia......Page 46
2 Property rights: private and political institutions......Page 76
3 The logic of collective action......Page 102
4 Social choice theory......Page 126
PART II THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK......Page 158
5 Constitutional choice......Page 160
6 Monarchies, hereditary and non-hereditary......Page 183
7 The anatomy of political representation: direct democracy, parliamentary democracy, and representative democracy......Page 200
PART III INSTITUTIONS AND MECHANISMS OF COLLECTIVE CHOICE......Page 224
8 Institutions, durability, and the value of political transactions......Page 226
9 Voting......Page 240
10 On legislatures and legislative efficiency wages......Page 283
11 Bureaucracy......Page 301
12 Rational choice theories of bureaucratic control and performance......Page 314
13 The judiciary......Page 336
14 Money......Page 353
15 Ideology......Page 371
16 Clubs and club goods......Page 380
PART IV PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY......Page 398
17 The interest-group theory of government......Page 400
18 Rent seeking and rent extraction......Page 422
19 Public choice and public finance......Page 439
20 Politics and the macro economy......Page 465
21 Monetary policy......Page 483
22 The politics of government growth......Page 500
23 Is trust in government compatible with trustworthy government?......Page 522
PART V THE PUBLIC CHOICE REVOLUTION......Page 538
24 Public choice as an experimental science......Page 540
25 The public choice approach to economic history......Page 555
26 Law and economics......Page 590
27 Public choice and the environment......Page 633
28 Institutions, policy, and economic growth......Page 654
29 Public choice and economic growth......Page 671
30 The international economy in public choice perspective......Page 688
References......Page 716
B......Page 794
C......Page 796
D......Page 798
E......Page 799
F......Page 800
G......Page 801
H......Page 802
I......Page 803
L......Page 805
M......Page 806
N......Page 808
P......Page 809
R......Page 812
S......Page 813
T......Page 815
U......Page 817
V......Page 818
Z......Page 819