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The Economic Approach to Public Policy : Selected Readings /
Can traditional economic theory help to solve today's vexing social problems? This unique collection of thirty-six papers strongly suggests that it can. The economic approach is applied imaginatively by the authors to a wide range of contemporary issues, such as crime, higher education, the env...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Perspectives on the Usefulness of Economics as a Guide for Social Policy
- 1. The Economic Approach to Social Policy Questions: Some Methodological Perspectives / Amacher, Ryan C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- 2. Consensus and Controversy in Political Economy / Okun, Arthur M.
- 3. On the Limited "Relevance" of Economics / Heilbroner, Robert L.
- 4. Science and Ideology in Economics / Solow, Robert M.
- 5. Dissent in Economics: The Convergence of Extremes / Olson, Mancur / Clague, Christopher K.
- Part II: Application of Economic Thinking to Some Particular Social Problems
- A. Crime and Punishment
- 7. An Economic Approach to Crime / Tullock, Gordon
- 8. Equity versus Efficiency in Law Enforcement / Thurow, Lester C.
- B. Higher Education and the Dissemination of Information
- 9. Resources for Higher Education: An Economist's View / Schultz, Theodore W.
- 10. The University and the Price System / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- C. The Environment
- 11. Economists on the Doomsday Models: A Review of The Limits to Growth, by Donella H. Meadows et al, and Norid Dynamics and Urban Dynamics, by Jay W. Forrester / Passell, Peter / Roberts, Marc / Ross, Leonard
- 12. Population and Environmental Quality / Fisher, Anthony C.
- 13. The Economics of Fatal Mistakes: Fiscal Mechanisms for Preserving Endangered Predators / Amacher, Ryan C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- D. Revenue Sharing and the Drawing of Political Boundary Lines
- 14. Federalism: Problems of Scale / Tullock, Gordon
- 15. Revenue Sharing: Alternative to Rational Fiscal Federalism? / McLure, Charles E.
- Part III: Economists on Equity, Justice, and the Distribution of Income
- 16. A Menu of Distributional Considerations / Amacher, Ryan C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- 17. On Limiting the Domain of Inequality / Tobin, James
- 18. Director's Law of Public Income Redistribution / Stigler, George J.
- 19. Two Concepts of Equity and Their Implications for Public Policy / Pauly, Mark V. / Willett, Thomas D.
- 20. The Utilitarian Contract: A Generalization of Rawls' Theory of Justice / Mueller, Dennis C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- Part IV: Economists on Governmental and Political Failure
- A. Deviation from the Ideal in Governmental Behavior
- 21. Toward Analysis of Closed Behavioral Systems / Buchanan, James M.
- 22. The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy / Niskanen, William A.
- 23. Divergences between Individual and Total Costs Within Government / McKean, Roland N.
- B. Problems of Informed Voting
- 24. A Program for Direct and Proxy Voting in the Legislative Process / Miller, James C.
- 25. On Homo Politicus and the Instant Referendum / Shubik, Martin
- 26. Representative Democracy via Random Selection / Mueller, Dennis C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- 27. Some Simple Economics of Voting and Not Voting / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- C. Are There Systematic Biases in Government Budget Size?
- 28. Risk Avoidance and Political Advertising: Neglected Issues in the Literature on Budget Size in a Democracy / Amacher, Ryan C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- 29. Attitudes toward Risk and the Relative Size of the Public Sector / Greene, Kenneth V.
- D. Rationalizing our Political Decision-making
- 30. Solving the Intensity Problem in Representative Democracy / Mueller, Dennis C. / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- Part V: Economics and Economists in the Policy Process
- 31. The Economist and Presidential Leadership / Okun, Arthur M.
- 32. Reflections on Political Economy / Shultz, George P.
- 33. The American Council of Economic Advisers and the German Sachverstaendigenrat: A Study in the Economics of Advice / Wallich, Henry C.
- 34. Muddling Through: An Alternative View of the Decision Process / Schultze, Charles L.
- 35. A Modest Proposal / Tullock, Gordon
- 36. A Defense of the CEA as an Instrument for Giving Economic Policy Advice / Tollison, Robert D. / Willett, Thomas D.
- Index of Names