Author:
Tullock, Gordon.
Imprint:Indianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund, c2005.
Descriptionxvii, 465 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:An economic analysis of political choice. - Origins of public choice. - People are people: the elements of public choice. - Mosquito abatement. - Property, contract, and the state. - Bargaining. - Externalities and all that. - The costs of government. - Remedies. - The social costs of reducing social cost. - The vote motive: an essay in the economics of politics. - Political ignorance. - The politics of persuasion. - The economics of lying. - Some further thoughts on voting. - A measure of the importance of cyclical majorities (Colin D. Campbell and Gordon Tullock) - The paradox of voting--a possible method of calculation. - Computer simulation of a small voting system (Gordon Tullock and Colin D. Campbell) - The paradox of not voting for oneself. - Avoiding the voter's paradox democratically: comment. - An approach to empirical measures of voting paradoxes. - Duncan Black: the founding father, 23 May 1908-14 January 1991. - Hotelling and Downs in two dimensions. - A simple algebraic logrolling model. - More complicated log-rolling. - Efficienc in log-rolling. - Some limitations of demand-revealing processes: comment (T. Nicolaus Tidemand and Gordon Tullock) - Coalitions under demand revealing (T. Nicolaus Tidemand and Gordon Tullock) - More thought about demand revealing. - Proportional representation. - Democracy as it really is. - A bouquet of governments. - Thoughts about representative government. - Voting, different methods and general considerations. - A bouquet of voting methods.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
