Author:
Tullock, Gordon.
Imprint:Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund, 2004.
Description642 p.; 24 cm.
Note:Economic imperialism. - Public choice. - Public choice--what I hope for the next 25 years. - Casual recollections of an editor. - Problems of majority voting. - The irrationality of intransitivity. - Entry barriers in politics. - Federalism: problems of scale. - The general irrelevance of the general impossibility theorem. - Why so much stability. - Is there a paradox of voting? - A new and superior process for making social choices (T. Nicolaus Tideman and Gordon Tullock) - The demand-revealing process as a welfare indicator. - Demand-revealing process, coalitions, and public goods. - The welfare costs of tariffs, monopolies, and theft. - The cost of transfers. - More on the welfare costs of transfers. - Competing for aid. - The transitional gains trap. - Efficient rent seeking. - Rent seeking. - Inheritance justified. - Inheritance rejustified. - The charity of the uncharitable. - The rhetoric and reality of redistribution.
Note:Dynamic hypothesis on bureaucracy. - The expanding public sector: Wagner squared (James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock) - The edge of the jungle. - Corruption and anarchy. - The paradox of revolution. - Rationality and revolution. - Public and private interaction under reciprocal externality (James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock) - Social cost and government action. - Public decisions as public goods. - Information without profit. - Polluters' profits and political response: direct controls versus taxes, and Reply (James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock) - Hawks, doves, and free riders. - An economic approach to crime. - The costs of a legal system (Warren F. Schwartz and Gordon Tullock) - On the efficient organization of trials. - On the efficient organization of trials: reply to McChesney, and Ordover and Weitzman. - Judicial errors and a proposal for reform (I.J. Good and Gordon Tullock) - Court errors. - Legal heresy: presidential address to the Western Economic Association annual meeting, 1995. - Juries. - The coal tit as a careful shopper. - Biological externalities. - Biological applications of economics. - The economics of (very) primitive societies. - A (partial) rehabilitation of the public interest theory. - How to do well while doing good!
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
