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Rethinking Public Choice Richard E. Wagner 9781802204735
Booksplease Price: €108.42Innovative in its approach, Rethinking Public Choice reviews the concept of public choice since the 1950s post-war period and the application of economics to political practices and institutions, as... -
Rethinking Economics as Social Theory by Richard E. Wagner
Booksplease Price: €116.81Taking an innovative look at the origins of economics, this forward-thinking book relocates economics from a materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social... -
The Legacy of Richard E. Wagner by Peter J Boettke 9781942951681
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €28.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942951681Author Peter J BoettkeFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Mercatus Center at George... -
Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy by Richard E. Wagner 9781858984018
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €21.05In Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy, Richard E. Wagner offers an approach to welfare economics and economic policy appropriate for a classically liberal society.Professor Wagner explains how... -
The Legacy of Richard E. Wagner by Peter J Boettke 9781942951698
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942951698Author Peter J BoettkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Mercatus Center at George... -
James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction by Richard E. Wagner
Booksplease Price: €49.72James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan's body of work. The book uses Buchanan's past... -
Deficits, Debt, and Democracy: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons by Richard E. Wagner 9780857934598
Booksplease Price: €124.95This timely book reveals that the budget deficits and accumulating debts that plague modern democracies reflect a clash between two rationalities of governance: one of private property and one of... -
Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance: An Exploratory Essay Richard E. Wagner 9781848444744
RRP: €52.30Booksplease Price: €48.99This book advances a social-theoretic treatment of public finance, which contrasts with the typical treatment of government as an agent of intervention into a market economy. To start, Richard Wagner... -
Macroeconomics as Systems Theory: Transcending the Micro-Macro Dichotomy by Richard E. Wagner 9783030444679
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €117.42This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation. The resulting difference in... -
Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance: An Exploratory Essay by Richard E. Wagner 9781847202468
Booksplease Price: €132.21This book advances a social-theoretic treatment of public finance, which contrasts with the typical treatment of government as an agent of intervention into a market economy. To start, Richard Wagner... -
Deficits, Debt, and Democracy: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons by Richard E. Wagner 9781781007051
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.30This timely book reveals that the budget deficits and accumulating debts that plague modern democracies reflect a clash between two rationalities of governance: one of private property and one of... -
Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy by Richard E. Wagner
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.00Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could... -
To Promote the General Welfare: Market Processes vs. Political Transfers by Richard E Wagner 9781942951520
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942951520Author Richard E WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Mercatus Center at George... -
Politics as a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy by Richard E. Wagner 9781785365478
Booksplease Price: €131.00Economists typically treat government as something outside the business realm, a sort of 'Lord of the Manor'. Richard Wagner argues that this is the wrong approach and can ultimately be destructive... -
Politics as a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy Richard E. Wagner 9781786430458
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €44.79'While market activity and political activity are often analyzed independently of each other, Wagner demonstrates their interdependence. His novel analysis shows that politics has a level of... -
Parchment, Guns and Constitutional Order: Classical Liberalism, Public Choice and Constitutional Democracy by Richard E. Wagner 9781852788391
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €21.05In this far-reaching and insightful monograph, Richard Wagner exposes the failure of the United States constitution to overcome the tyranny of the majority so feared by the Founding Fathers. ... -
Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance: Overcoming a Category Mistake and its Vices by Richard E. Wagner 9781108735896
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €19.66Economists commit a category mistake when they treat democratic governments as indebted. Monarchs can be indebted, as can individuals. In contrast, democracies can't truly be indebted. They are... -
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit at 100 by Luca Fiorito 9781800711495
Booksplease Price: €100.77Volume 39C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, features a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit... -
The Public Budgeting and Finance Primer: Key Concepts in Fiscal Choice by Jay Eungha Ryu
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.36This primer succinctly summarises key theoretical concepts in fiscal choice for both practitioners and scholars. The author contends that fiscal choice is ultimately a choice of both politics and... -
Fiscal responsibility in constitutional democracy by James M. Buchanan 9781468471274
Booksplease Price: €55.07This volume contains the papers, along with the discussant's re marks, presented at a conference on 'Federal Fiscal Responsibility', held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, on 26-27 March 1976... -
Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy Mark Pennington 9781849807654
RRP: €43.97Booksplease Price: €41.65This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of 'robust political economy' that explores the... -
Public Debt: An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy by Giuseppe Eusepi 9781786438034
Booksplease Price: €121.61Over the past few decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. Using methodological individualism and... -
Debt Default and Democracy by Giuseppe Eusepi 9781788117920
Booksplease Price: €131.00The original essays in this book connect the microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to public debt. Through their thought-provoking views, leading scholars offer insights into the incentives that... -
Individualism and Political Disorder by James M. Buchanan 9781784710576
Booksplease Price: €107.56Inspired by F.A. Hayek's Individualism and Economic Order, this book, edited by Yong Yoon, stands in contrast to the themes of that work by emphasizing that collective action operates differently... -
Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes by William A. Niskanen 9781843764359
Booksplease Price: €126.16This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic... -
Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes by William A. Niskanen 9781845420932
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €38.50This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic... -
Political Failure by Agreement: Learning Liberalism and the Welfare State by Gerhard Wegner 9781847207340
Booksplease Price: €126.16The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political... -
Cryptodemocracy: How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice by Darcy W.E. Allen 9781498579636
Booksplease Price: €102.85This book investigates the theoretical and practical implications of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies for democratic decision making. What new structures of democracy does... -
Cryptodemocracy: How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice by Darcy W.E. Allen 9781498579650
Booksplease Price: €40.27A cryptodemocracy is cryptographically-secured collective choice infrastructure on which individuals coordinate their voting property rights. Drawing on economic and political theory, a... -
Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained by Randall G. Holcombe
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.26Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people... -
Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan by Paul Dragos Aligica
Booksplease Price: €49.72James M. Buchanan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986, was a pioneer of public choice and constitutional political economy, as well as contributing to many fields of study, including... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Choice by Randall G. Holcombe 9781785362040
Booksplease Price: €118.01Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. This Advanced Introduction... -
Advanced Introduction to Public Choice Randall G. Holcombe 9781785362064
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €25.91Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. This Advanced Introduction... -
Public Debt and the Common Good: Philosophical and Institutional Implications of Fiscal Imbalance by James Odom 9780367666002
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77The American national debt stands at $20.49 trillion as of January 2018, or roughly $63,000 for every person in the United States. The national debt has grown six-fold in the past 25 years, and... -
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Political Order: New Applications of Public Choice Theory by Donald J. Boudreaux 9781538158784
Booksplease Price: €40.27The political process focuses on the ways that people come together to engage in collective decision making in a variety of contexts. The central elements of the political process include: the... -
Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation by Lee Cronk
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €25.83From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation... -
Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation by Lee Cronk 9780691154954
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation... -
Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic and Political Perspectives by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez 9781107052789
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €127.19Although coercion is a fundamental and unavoidable part of our social lives, economists have not offered an integrated analysis of its role in the public economy. The essays in this book focus on... -
Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis by Walter Hettich 9780521622912
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €71.26This work examines tax policies and tax systems as they arise from democratic choices, set against the background of a market economy. Professors Hettich and Winer find that democratic institutions...