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Big Spills Make Bad Regs - Reason Online (blog)

Big Spills Make Bad RegsReason Online (blog)To those schooled in public choice theory, the Post story is another case study in "agency capture" - where a regulatory process is "captured" by those it ...and more »

Joe Atkinson: Politics as Comedy - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand HeraldJoe Atkinson: Politics as ComedyNew Zealand HeraldIts underlying premise is that there is always a mask, always a gap between performance and reality and-by extension into public choice theory-always an ...

Rational choice marxism?

And the public choice theory that I wrote about is a fairly typical example, taking market-based precepts about human behaviour that was designed to explain marketplace behaviour and applying them to a non-market terrain where an ...

Marginal Revolution: A public choice theory of the IMF

A public choice theory of the IMF. Via Menzie Chinn, Mark Copelovich writes: As the Fund's largest quota contributors, the "G-5" countries (the US, Germany, Japan, UK, and France) exercise de facto control over IMF lending decisions. ...

Public Choice Theory « JAYA's BLOG

Public choice in economic theory is the use of modern economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of political science. From the perspective of political science, it may be seen as the subset of positive ...

Where is Recovery and Reinvestment Act Spending Going and Why ...

On the other hand, statistically significant effects associated with political variables are almost always of the sign predicted by public choice theory. One striking result is that the elasticity of ARRA spending with respect to the ...

Public Choice Theory and Liberating Markets in Happiness - Free ...

They would also, most likely, ridicule public choice theory. Public choice theory, which is widely accepted among economists, is merely a means of analyzing government action by pointing out that most of the time most voters, ...

Joe Atkinson : Politics as Comedy

Dr Joe Atkinson, senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies As I've sat down there with you over these past few weeks listening to some very erudite colleagues discuss the current malaise of journalism, it has occurred...

Conventional governments, are unable to resolve the situation, because it has to undergo a method of public choice theory, global level

Conventional governments, are unable to resolve the situation, because it has to undergo a method of public choice theory, global level