Public Choice II: A Revised Edition of Public Choice (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature)
by By Mueller, Dennis C.
Category: Business & Economics , Economic History

Detailing normative issues in public choice, this book discusses the main topics of the literature of the past forty years.  Separate chapters examine various applied public choice questions such as rent seeking, the growth of government, the rise and decline of nations, political business cycles, why people vote, and the nature and extent of redistribution. Also included are the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare functions, the Arrow and Sen impossibility theorems, and the work of John Rawls, John Harsanyi, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock.    This book is a major revision of Public Choice, published in 1979.  It contains eleven new chapters in addition to substantial revision and expansion, and separate sections containing proofs of the most important theorems.