Books in the Studies in Public Choice series

By demonstrating that totalitarian regimes rest on ideologies involving supreme values that are assumed to be absolutely true, the author identifies the factors that lead to totalitarian regimes, and those that transform or abolish those regimes with time.

This book - the second of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. This book will be useful for researchers and students interested in economics, history, political science, economic history, public choice, and political economy.

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. This book will be useful for researchers and students interested in economics, history, political science, economic history, public choice, and political economy.

This book contains eight papers focusing on factors associated with the growth of government. The papers in this volume focus on a number of arguments related to why government has grown in many developed countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This volume is intended to serve as a review of the ¿next generation¿ of political economy scholars in what can be called the ¿Wagnerian¿ tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules. To treat these decisions as if they were the product of one single mind, or even simply the additive result of several decisions, is to fundamentally misunderstand and mischaracterize the dynamics of collective action. Today, Richard Wagner is among the most prominent theorists in analyzing the institutional foundations of the economy and the organization of political decision-making. In this collection of original essays, former students schooled in this tradition offer emerging insights on public choice theory, public finance, and political economy, across a range of topics from voting behavior to entrepreneurship.

This volume is intended to serve as a review of the ¿next generation¿ of political economy scholars in what can be called the ¿Wagnerian¿ tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules. To treat these decisions as if they were the product of one single mind, or even simply the additive result of several decisions, is to fundamentally misunderstand and mischaracterize the dynamics of collective action. Today, Richard Wagner is among the most prominent theorists in analyzing the institutional foundations of the economy and the organization of political decision-making. In this collection of original essays, former students schooled in this tradition offer emerging insights on public choice theory, public finance, and political economy, across a range of topics fromvoting behavior to entrepreneurship.

This book contains eight papers focusing on factors associated with the growth of government. The papers in this volume focus on a number of arguments related to why government has grown in many developed countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.