Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers
Subtitle: the economic engine of political change
By: Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López
Contributors: López, Edward J., author
Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780804780971
Subjects: Policy sciences; Economic policy; Economic aspects; Political planning; Political entrepreneurship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ideas and the rules of politics; title: The never-ending quest for good government; title: Economists join the battle of political ideas; title: Public choice : how we get bad policies and get stuck with them, or not; title: How ideas matter for political change; title: Four stories of political change; title: What is to be done? : assembling the wisdom.