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A Report to the Committee on the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 1985: The Contributions of James M. Buchanan to Economics and Political Economy [PDF]

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Buchanan's contributions through 1984 are surveyed in six areas: (A) debt, fiscal illusion, and Keynesian criticisms, (B) London School of Economics cost approach, (C) methodological individualism and the economics of politics, (D) welfare price theory, (
Thomas Borcherding
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Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy: A Survey [PDF]

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Public choice economists began studying the economics of anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of research on anarchy has burgeoned. This article surveys the important public choice contributions to the economics of anarchy.
Powell, Benjamin, Stringham, Edward P.
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The Tax Spending Nexus: Evidence from a Panel of US State-Local Governments [PDF]

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We re-examine the tax-spending nexus using, for the first time, a panel of fifty US state-local government units over the period 1963-97 and panel techniques that allow for cross-sectional dependence.
Joakim Westerlund, Saeid Mahdavi
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Procedurally Fair Provision of Public Projects An axiomatic characterization [PDF]

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Unanimous voting as the fundamental procedural source of political legitimacy grants veto power to each individual. We present an axiomatic characterization of a class of bidding processes to spell out the underlying egalitarian values for collective ...
Hartmut Kliemt, Werner Güth
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Ulysses and the Rent-Seekers: The Benefits and Challenges of Constitutional Constraints on Leviathan [PDF]

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. A constitutionally constrained government may be viewed as an attractive arrangement in that it may limit the rent-seeking behavior by narrowly motivated special interest groups and instead support policies of a Pareto-improving character. However, the
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter
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