Virginia political economy by Tullock, Gordon, Rowley, Charles K., 1939-2013 instant download

Virginia political economy by Tullock, Gordon, Rowley, Charles K., 1939-2013 instant download

xxviii, 642 pages ; 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, 1. Genesis. Economic imperialism -- Public choice -- Public choice-- what I hope for the next twenty-five years -- Casual recollections of an editor -- 2. Problems of majority voting. Problems of majority voting -- The irrationality of intransitivity -- Entry barriers in politics -- Federalism : problems of scale -- The general irrelevance of the general impossibility theorem -- Why so much stability -- Is there a paradox of voting? -- 3. The demand-revealing process. A new and superior process for making social choices / T. Nicolaus Tideman and Gordon Tullock -- The demand-revealing process as a welfare indicator -- Demand-revealing process, coalitions, and public goods -- 4. Rent seeking. The welfare costs of tariffs, monopolies, and theft -- The cost of transfers -- More on the welfare costs of transfers -- Competing for aid -- The transitional gains trap -- Efficient rent seeking -- Rent seeking -- 5. Redistributive politics. Inheritance justified -- Inheritance rejustified -- The charity of the uncharitable -- The rhetoric and reality of redistribution, 6. Bureaucracy. Dynamic hypothesis on bureaucracy -- The expanding public sector : Wagner squared / James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock -- 7. The social dilemma. The edge of the jungle -- Corruption and anarchy -- The paradox of revolution -- Rationality and revolution -- 8. The problem of social cost. Public and private interaction under reciprocal externality / James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock -- Social cost and government action -- Public decisions as public goods -- Information without profit -- Polluters' profits and political response : direct controls versus taxes / James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock -- Polluters' profits and political response : direct controls versus taxes : Reply / James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock -- Hawks, doves, and free riders -- 9. Law and economics. An economic approach to crime -- The costs of a…