Constitutional economics and public institutions
Subtitle: essays in honour of José Casas Pardo
By: edited by Francisco Cabrillo, Department of Applied economics, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain; Miguel A. Puchades-Navarro, Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia, Spain
Series: New thinking in political economy; New thinking in political economy
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781781003961; 9781781003978
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Constitutional law; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Law and economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Francisco Cabrillo and Miguel A. Puchades-Navarro; title: Presuppositions in the evaluation of rules / James M. Buchanan; title: Buchanan, Hobbes and contractarianism : the supply of rules? / Geoffrey Brennan and Giuseppe Eusepi; title: Economics governance in the European Union : a problem of legitimacy / Francisco Cabrillo and Sean Fitzpatric; title: Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy : the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 / Roger D. Congleton; title: Reforms and decentralization : friends or foes? / Pierre Salmon; title: Democracy-preserving institutions : the quasi-federal system of South Africa / Giorgio Brosio; title: On Machiavelli's conspiracy paradoxes / Manfred J. Holler; title: A general measure of the 'effective' number of parties in a political system / Vani K. Borooah; title: Party competition and electoral turnout : Downs's calculus in a multiparty system / Juha Helin and Hannu Nurmi; title: The political economy of Dutch Disease : a survey / Martin Paldam; title: Higher education as private good and as quasi public good : the case of Italy / Silvia Fedeli and Francesco Forte; title: The actual role of government intervention for the recovery of the Italian economy / Gian Cesare Romagnoli.; title: Government bankruptcy of Balkan nations and the consequences for money and inflation before 1914 : a comparative analysis Peter Bernholz; title: Regulator preferences and lobbying efforts in rent-seeking contests / Juan D. Montoro-Pons; title: Cooperation in multilateral PDs : self-selected vs pre-defined groups / Viktor J. Vanberg; title: Voluntary provision of public goods / Miguel A. Puchades-Navarro; title: Awards play an important role / Bruno S. Frey and Susanne Neckermann; title: The optimal Babel : an economic framework for the analysis of dynamic language rights / Bengt-Arne Wickström; title: A theory of conversion to exclusive religious and political faiths / Mario Ferrero.