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Söderström, Lars - 2008

This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth...

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Anarchy, state and public choice

Stringham, Edward Peter (contributor) - 2005

The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. The younger economists are notably less pessimistic about...

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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications

Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew Kazimierz - 1996

Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...

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Migrants and welfare states : balancing dilemmas in Northern Europe

Larsen, Christian Albrekt (ed.) - 2022

Sweden, leading scholars analyse the varying approaches to this so-called 'progressive dilemma'. Providing an in …

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Political failure by agreement : learning liberalism and the welfare state

Wegner, Gerhard - 2008

The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author … argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go …. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can …

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The political economy of welfare reform in the United States

Reintsma, Mary - 2007

Social welfare policy -- Comparative social welfare policy -- Traditional public interest model -- The public choice perspective -- Government and its bureaucracy -- The origins of the new welfare law -- The genesis of the new welfare law -- Institutional analysis -- An econometric analysis of...

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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking

Tullock, Gordon - 2005

1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government? -- 4. The poor -- 5. The legacy of Bismarck -- 6. Some biological problems -- 7. The rich -- 8. The survey of the existing system -- 9. Rent seeking -- 10. War -- 11. Monarchies...

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Market failure or success : the new debate

Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...

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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition

Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis

In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...

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The history of economic analysis : selected essays

Creedy, John - 1998

This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an...

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