What should public service economists do?
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Good summary
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James Buchanan on economic advisors as establishment intellectuals
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From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=92xzxQEACAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
James Buchanan on highly undemocratic Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
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From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=92xzxQEACAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Brennan and Buchanan explain modern monetary theory in The Power to Tax (1980)
03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
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