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Perspectives on Public Choice
This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions to the field of public choice.
Development and Democracy
An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural conversation about development and democracy worldwide.
The American Illness
DIVThis provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the country’s long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions between economics and the law—in such areas as corruption, business regulation, and federalism—and explains how our system works differently from the one in most countries, with contradictory and hard to understand business regulations, tort laws that vary from state to state, and surprising judicial interpretations of clearly written contracts. This imposes far heavier litigation costs on American companies and hampers economic growth./div
Organized Interests and Self-regulation
This collected volume studies the role of organized interests in collective decision-making and the emergence of self-regulation. In democratic settings, organized interests play a role at the legislative stage, affecting the outcome through lobbying activity. While pressure groups andlobbying are a traditional topic in public choice theory, the incentives to maintain private rules and enforcement through self-regulation is a less developed research area in political economy. The book provides a balanced mix of theoretical and empirical papers in traditional public choice,addressing the issues of how organized interest affect legislation and self-regulation, investigating the incentives and the problems related to the private enforcement of law.
The U.S. Trade Deficit
"Report of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, November 14, 2000"--Cover p. [2].
Transnational Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States
This is a reprint of a 1980 book that deals with foreign companies acquiring American businesses in the 1970s and how they evaluated and negotiated those acquisitions.
The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government
Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, the study of how business and government relate to each other in different countries is of more central importance than ever. These relationships have been studied from a number of different disciplinary perspectives - business studies, economics, economic history, law, and political science - and a...
Trade Policy in the 1980s
The twenty contributions in this book, by academics, former government officials, and businessmen address issues in the world trading system.
