The Economics of Public Choice, Second Edition - Softcover

McNutt, Patrick A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843760665 ISBN 13: 9781843760665

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

In this fully revised second edition of a well-regarded and popular text, Patrick McNutt presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public choice. The author evaluates a range of public choice concepts including rent-seeking, voting and voter behaviour, and the growth of government and bureaucracy. New material in this second edition includes:

• the introduction of a moral choice set and a new methodology for the treatment of the concept of fairness
• a positive theory of rent-seeking with empirical estimates
• the issue of legal barriers to entry and related themes; in particular how a legal barrier can affect consumer welfare
• a critical evaluation of the exchange and allocation of economic power and income inequality in developing countries
• an overview of the global political economy which identifies the contribution of public choice.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick A. McNutt, Business Consultant based in Dublin, ROI and Visiting Fellow, Alliance Manchester Business School, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843760665
• ISBN 13: 9781843760665
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 360