Demand Revelation And The Provision Of Public Goods

Author : Edward Clarke
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595089307

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Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods by Edward Clarke Pdf

The demand revelation process has been called a new and superior process for making social choices and holds some promise of creating an intellectual revolution in economics and politics. It relies on a so-called “Clarke tax” or pivot mechanism to ensure that individuals will adequately consider the social cost of their influence on social outcomes, thereby ensuring truthful revelation of preferences and overcoming the “free rider” problem of public goods provisioning. Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods outlines Clarke’s approach to use demand revelation in the creation of demand revealing markets accompanied by the improved management of social entitlements to public goods and services. Based on these refinements, he shows ways to achieve improved government performance in areas of taxation, spending and government regulatory management. In this revised edition of his original 1980 book, Clarke reviews other recent related work, notably Martin Bailey’s Constitution for a Future Country, which describes in detail how these advances in an improved political economy can be achieved.

Author : Robert Cameron Mitchell,Richard T. Carson
Publisher : Resources for the Future
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0915707322

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Using Surveys to Value Public Goods by Robert Cameron Mitchell,Richard T. Carson Pdf

Provides decision makers, policy analysts, and social scientists, with a detailed discussion of a new techniques for the valuation of goods not traded in prevate markets.

Author : Michael Carrier Et Al.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105035531

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Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property V9.8 by Michael Carrier Et Al. Pdf

Author : Edward B. Barbier,Timothy M. Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698985

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Economics for the Wilds by Edward B. Barbier,Timothy M. Swanson Pdf

Originally published in 1992 Economics for the Wilds argues that an economics that properly values the resources of the wilds offers the best long-term security for their future. Most of the world’s wilds have, in fact, always been utilized by local societies who have managed their resources sustainably, and one important guarantee for their preservation is therefore the continued participation of those communities and an adequate reward to them for their management. The book looks at the complexity and global nature of the issues, at the application of economics to the wilds and at the policies for their conservation and sustainable management which then result. It also examines specific forms of utilization of wild species and habitats, both sustainable and unsustainable, and including community-based development, tourism, the use of rainforest products, poaching and the impact of conservation on wildlife use. The book concludes that a comprehensive utilization strategy for wild resources is needed to ensure their continued existence and the continued flow of benefits from them.

Author : Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351292061

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Culture and Social Theory by Aaron Wildavsky Pdf

Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory of rational choices. This book is the first in a series of Aaron Wildavsky's collected writings being published posthumously by Transaction. Wildavsky selected, sequenced, and grouped all but three of the essays included in Culture and Social Theory prior to his death. Some are presented here for the first time. Wildavsky's cultural theory provides ways to organize and interpret the world. In the first section, he shows how social scientists, particularly economists and sociologists, apply the theory. Wildavsky argues that concepts such as externalities, public goods, altruism, and even risk and rape are tools of rival, ubiquitous cultures engaged in perpetual struggle with one another. The second section deals with cultural theory as a way to interpret the works of normative and analytic political philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill, on competing human objectives. Wildavsky argues that particular types of interaction among a society's cultures are necessary for effective realization of basic concepts such as democracy. In the third section, Wildavsky applies cultural theory in conjunction with instrumental rationality, the former as a theory of preference formation, the latter as a device for realizing preferences efficiently. High-priority objectives, and thus the character of norms and rational action, shift across cultures. The world and its various elements comprise a complex, frequently changing, and thus ambiguous reality, nowhere more so than in the dynamic contours of the United States. For cultural theory, individualistic, hierarchical, and egalitarian interpretations of the world are the only ones capable of forming and sustaining institutions and related patterns of social relations that will support human social groups. Wildavsky's central objective is to strip away the camouflage and to reveal varying domains of social life as fields of cultural competition. Culture and Social Theory will be a necessary addition to the libraries of political scientists, economists, and policymakers, not to mention all those who admire Aaron Wildavsky and his work.

Author : Lawrence H. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107012424

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The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence H. White Pdf

This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.

Author : Peter J Boettke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134886319

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Why Perestroika Failed by Peter J Boettke Pdf

This argues that Perestroika failed as the result of the lack of understanding of market and political processes with reform processes representing

Author : Murray Rothbard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610161633

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Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 4 by Murray Rothbard Pdf

Author : M. Bailey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230287792

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Constitution for a Future Country by M. Bailey Pdf

This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour. It combines previously published ideas about charging people the costs of their political actions and selling insurance against unfavourable political outcomes, with new ideas about competing legislatures and incentives for generating efficient political outcomes. The book includes new theorems about the mechanisms that are discussed, as well as a proposed constitution and its rationale.

Author : Arye L. Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107136311

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Public Finance and Public Policy by Arye L. Hillman Pdf

Using a political-economy perspective this book is an introduction to the responsibilities and limitations of government in a market economy.

Author : Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030030803

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James M. Buchanan by Richard E. Wagner Pdf

“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.”– Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA"The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine collection is the extraordinary expanse of James Buchanan's work. Everyone interested in economics and related fields can profit mightily from this book."– Mario Rizzo, Professor of Economics, New York University, USA This book explores the academic contribution of James Buchanan, who received the Nobel Prize for economics in 1986. Buchanan’s receipt of the Prize is noteworthy because he was a maverick within the economics profession. In contrast to the preponderance of economists, Buchanan made little use of mathematics and no use of econometrics, preferring to used logic and language to insert his ideas into the scholarly community. Moreover, his ideas extended the domain of economic inquiry along many paths that numerous economists subsequently pursued. Buchanan’s scholarship brought economics and political science together under the rubric of public choice. He was also was a prime figure in bringing economic theory into closer contact with moral and social philosophy.This volume includes essays distributed across the extensive domain of Buchanan’s scholarly contributions, reflecting the range of his scholarly interests. Chapters will examine Buchanan’s scholarly work on public finance, social insurance, public debt, public choice, economic methodology, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and ethics and social theory. The book also examines Buchanan in relation to other prominent economists, both from the distant past and the recent past.

Author : Howard Margolis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226505244

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Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality by Howard Margolis Pdf

Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microeconomic models are hard-pressed to explain such social behavior, but Howard Margolis proposes a solution. He suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves. "Howard Margolis's intriguing ideas . . . provide an alternative to the crude models of rational choice that have dominated economics and political science for too long."—Times Literary Supplement

Author : Swain
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765628961

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Budgeting for Public Managers by Swain Pdf

Benefiting from the authors' many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners, here is a clear, comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. Rather than presenting each budgeting concern in mind-numbing detail, the book offers a commonsensical view of public budgeting and its importance to current and future public managers. The text is designed to show readers how managers relate to budgeting and how their actions make a difference in the operation and performance of public organizations. The book covers the historical development of public budgeting, sources of public revenues, revenue management, budgeting processes and formats, operating techniques, politics within public budgeting, and more. "Budgeting for Public Managers" is concise, clearly written, well illustrated, and grounded in the real-world concerns of public managers. Each chapter concludes with a helpful list of additional reading and resources for readers who want to dig deeper into budgeting practice and application.

Author : Raymond G. Batina,Toshihiro Ihori
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540276388

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Public Goods by Raymond G. Batina,Toshihiro Ihori Pdf

A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systematic manner. The breadth and depth of the book's coverage extends the existing literature in many ways.

Author : Jibo Yang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819929399

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Effective Supply Mechanism and Path of Environmental Public Goods in China by Jibo Yang Pdf

This book, from the perspectives of the spatial and intergenerational externalities of environmental public goods, provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and theories concerning environmental public goods supply and illustrates how to design the mechanism for promoting resident participation in effective environmental public goods supply under the guidance of the government. Noticeably, an intergenerational overlapping model for resident participation in environmental public goods supply has been created in the book, which generates new ideas for mitigating the long-standing forward intergenerational goods shortage. Moreover, this book uses happiness dataset to measure the feasibility of resident participation in environmental public goods supply and also makes a comparison between two supply models: Government Provide Model and Residents, Enterprises and Government Provide Model, so as to offer theoretically feasible suggestions.Not only is this book highly recommended for professionals in government units, universities, and research institutions that are engaged in environmental governance, but it can be used as a reference book for students of relevant majors in institutions of higher learning.