Contributions

  • K. Alec Chrystal (Editor) - Contributor
  • Rupert Pennant-Rea (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2000-05-19 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

63,000 words, Guess

Page Count

252 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL10387461M
  • ISBN-139780312221379
  • ISBN-100312221371
  • OCLC Control Number40521323
  • Library of Congress Control Number98055205
and 1 more
  • Goodreads3298021

Classifications

  • LCCHB846.8 .P825 2000

Description

"'Public choice' refers to a specific approach to the analysis of economic policy in which policy - makers are viewed as having their own objectives, much as consumers are assumed to maximize utility and firms to maximize profits.". "The key feature of this approach is that the outcomes of policy decisions are rarely socially optimal, and it thus provides a line of criticism of the outcomes generated by democratic policy-making institutions. The approach can be used to explain policy decisions. But it can also be used to show how the constraints and incentives imposed on policy-makers could be changed in order to generate socially desirable outcomes - such as handing monetary policy over to an independent central bank.". "The chapters in this volume offer analyses of policy by proponents of the approach as well as critics of it."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Public Choice Analysis of Economic Policy (British Association for the Advancement of Science Books)HardcoverPalgrave Macmillan2000-05-19

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