Economics of Politics: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock (Gordon Tullock Selections, Band 4) - Softcover

Rowley, Charles K.

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ISBN 10: 0865975345 ISBN 13: 9780865975347

Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 2005

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<p><strong><em>The Economics of Politics</em></strong> is the fourth volume in Liberty Fund’s <em>The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock.</em> This volume includes some of Gordon Tullock’s most noteworthy contributions to the theory and application of public choice, which is a relatively new science that links economics and political action. This volume combines the best parts of two of his books, <em>Private Wants: Public Means</em> and <em>On Voting</em>, as well as his famous monograph <em>The Vote Motive</em>.</p> <p>The common thread of <em>The Economics of Politics</em> is the importance of the bond between Homo politicus and Homo economicus: they are the same species, each driven largely by self-interest in vigorous pursuit of such personal objectives as wealth, power, prestige, and income security within the confines of society. <em>The Economics of Politics</em> covers such diverse public choice topics as: the nature and origins of public choice, the power of using economic analysis to understand and predict the behavior of politically influenced markets, and an evaluation of voting rules and political institutions.</p> <p>Equally confident in both the normative and the positive branches of the discipline, and well-versed in the wide variety of institutions and practices of democracy throughout history, Tullock takes the reader on a journey that goes well beyond the conventional horizon of public choice.</p> <p><strong>Gordon Tullock</strong> is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.</p> <p><strong>Charles K. Rowley</strong> was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.</p>

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Charles Rowley is Duncan Black Professor of Economics and a Senior Fellow of the James M Buchanan Centre for Political Economy at George Mason University. He is also General Director of the Locke Institute.

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• Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0865975345
• ISBN 13: 9780865975347
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 482
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