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THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RENT SEEKING
Edited by Robert D. Tollison, Roger D. Congleton
This collection brings together the classic papers on the economics of rent seeking. These papers date from Gordon Tullock’s original 1967 paper which first put forth the idea that the pursuit of transfers was socially costly. Other cl... -
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THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Edited by Steven G. Medema
Ronald Coase, the 1991 Nobel laureate in Economics, has had a profound impact on the way that economists and others view both the firm and the relationship between the legal and economic systems. This authoritative collection brings to... -
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Autos, Smog and Pollution Control
Wyn P. Grant
Professor Grant uses an analytical framework drawn from the leading theories of public policy formation, such as policy communities, to address the issues raised by California’s policy making experience. This study shows how an ambitiou... -
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The Politics of the Environment
Edited by Robert E. Goodin
The Politics of the Environment brings together 25 classic essays on the political theory of the environment, ranging across environmental philosophy and political, social, legal and economic aspects of environmental action. Prefaced by... -
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Game Theory and International Relations
Edited by Pierre Allan, Christian Schmidt
At the cutting edge of current modelling in international relations using non-cooperative game theory, this collection of original contributions from political scientists and economists explores some of the fundamental assumptions of gam...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES
Fred E. Foldvary
Rejecting the market-failure hypothesis, Dr Foldvary argues that an entrepreneur can provide collective goods by consensual community agreements. Instead of focusing particular services, as previous studies have done, this book concerns... -
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THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN
Michael Hill
The Welfare State in Britain presents a history of British social policy from the election of Clement Attlee to the fall of Margaret Thatcher. Michael Hill focuses upon the political processes which influenced the key reforms of the lat... -
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CONDORCET
Edited by Iain McLean, Fiona Hewitt
The Marquis de Condorcet (1743–94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Anatomy of the New Poland
Frances Millard
The Anatomy of the New Poland examines the nature and scope of political change in the first years of post-communist politics in Poland. Poland is significant not only because events there triggered the downfall of Communism throughou... -
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THE RUSSIAN PRESS FROM BREZHNEV TO YELTSIN
John Murray
In The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin, John Murray charts and examines the main changes in the content and language of the Russian press over the last decade. This is the most up-to-date book covering the evolution of the post-S... -
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INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENT
Alan Norton
The Handbook offers a comparative analysis of local and regional government in a wide range of countries, discussing their histories, traditions, national and internal institutional structures, financing, competences and functions. -
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National accounting and economic theory: The Collected Papers of Dan Usher
Dan Usher
Written over a span of 30 years, the essays in these volumes make significant contributions to the study of national accounting, demand theory, capital theory, public finance, the Canadian constitution, the subsidization of investment, e...