Author : William A. Niskanen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781858980416
Scholars, students and teachers of public economics will welcome this volume that, by making some of the key contributions in the field more widely accessible, will provoke discussion, debate and further research.
Author : Ronald N. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226401774
The call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a formidable challenge.
Author : Steven O. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415588561
Richardson offers a careful analysis of US federal agencies examining the interaction between executive and legislative branches of government, combining Austrian economics, Public Choice and Evolutionary methodology in his approach.
Author : William Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429720483
Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that market failures are common, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protect the public good. In Beyond Politics, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons carefully scrutinize this traditional view through the modern theory of public choice. The authors enlighten the relationship of government and markets by emphasizing the actual rather than the ideal workings of governments and by reuniting the insights of economics with those of political science. Beyond Politics traces the anatomy of government failure and a pathology of contemporary political institutions as government has become a vehicle for private gain at public expense. In so doing, this brisk and vigorous book examines a host of public issues, including social welfare, consumer protection, and the environment. Offering a unified and powerful perspective on the market process, property rights, politics, contracts, and government bureaucracy, Beyond Politics is a lucid and comprehensive book on the foundations and institutions of a free and humane society.
Author : Michael Lipsky
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1983-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1610443624
Street-Level Bureaucracy is an insightful study of how public service workers, in effect, function as policy decision makers, as they wield their considerable discretion in the day-to-day implementation of public programs.
Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Dead Authors Society
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781773230467
Author Ludwig von Mises was concerned with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. While he does not deny the necessity of certain bureaucratic structures for the smooth operation of any civilized state, he disagrees with the extent to which it has come to dominate the public life of European countries and the United States. The author's purpose is to demonstrate that the negative aspects of bureaucracy are not so much a result of bad policies or corruption as the public tends to think but are the bureaucratic structures due to the very tasks these structures have to deal with. The main body of the book is therefore devoted to a comparison between private enterprise on the one hand and bureaucratic agencies/public enterprise on the other.
Author : Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131786722X
First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to the authors’ research the ideas are restructured around a particular kind of institutional public choice method, recognizing the value of instrumental models as a mode of thinking clearly about the manifold complexities of political life.
Author : Gordon Tullock
Publisher : Selected Works of Gordon Tullo
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.
Author : Ali Farazmand
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1420015222
Bureaucracy is an age-old form of government that has survived since ancient times; it has provided order and persisted with durability, dependability, and stability. The popularity of the first edition of this book, entitled Handbook of Bureaucracy, is testimony to the endurance of bureaucratic institutions. Reflecting the accelerated globalizatio
Author : Arye L. Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139475371
The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and political economy concepts and political and bureaucratic principal-agent problems are introduced at the beginning for application to later topics. Fairness, envy, hyperbolic discounting, and other concepts of behavioral economics are integrated throughout. The consequences of asymmetric information and the tradeoff between efficiency and ex-post equality are recurring themes. Key themes investigated are markets and governments, institutions and governance, public goods, public finance for public goods, market corrections (externalities and paternalist public policies), voting, social justice, entitlements and equality of opportunity, choice of taxation, and the need for government. The purpose of the book is to provide an accessible introduction to the use of public finance and public policy to improve on market outcomes.
