Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice

The Unpublished Works of Duncan Black

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Gordon L. Brady, G. Tullock, Gordon Tullock

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Duncan Black made a significant contribution to the development of public choice theory during his lifetime. Upon his death it became apparent that much of his scholarship and critique of economics was never published. Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice is a collection of Duncan Black's unpublished works, representing his continuing contribution to economics and political science. It provides an insight into Black's intellectual endeavors and introduces some new ideas and extensions of earlier work.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-09-26
Mått155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt441 g
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagSpringer
EAN9789401073004

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I History.- 1 Introductory Notes.- 2 Hobbe’s Contribution to Abstract Political Science.- 3 How Expenditure of the Tax Proceeds Came to be Disregarded in the Theory of incidence.- 4 Historical Notes: Pythagoreans, Reverend C. L. Dodgson, Knut Wicksell and Lord Keynes.- 5 Some Notes on the Development Structure of the Theory of Committees.- II Epistemology.- 6 Introductory Notes.- 7 Some Important Distinctions: The Traditional Distinction Between Instrumental and Independent Actions.- 8 Rational Behavior.- 9 The Mechanism of Hedonistic Choice.- 10 The Commensurability of Intensities of Desires (Pleasures).- 11 That the same Mathematical Model Applies in Epistemology.- 12 The Assumptions — Imperfect Knowledge, Divided Expectationsand the Discount.- III Logrolling.- 13 Introductory Notes.- 14 On-Logrolling.- 15 Logrolling.- 16 Wicksell’s Use of the Theory of Committees in Public Finance.- 17 The Geometrical Theory of a Special Majority Geometry.- 18 The Theory of an International Committee Requiring a Unanimous Decision.- 19 Dicey on Logrolling.- IV Economics.- 20 Introductory Notes.- 21 The Concept of Cost in Economics.- 22 Wicksteed’s Theorem That the Concept of Supply Could be Dispensed With and Its Narrower and Wider Implications.- V Psychology.- 23 Introductory Notes.- 24 The Theory of Relative Utility Following the Second Austrian School.- 25 Definition of Relative Weights and Hypothesis That Choice Follows the Condorcet or Borda Criterion.- 26 A Suggested Application of the Theory of Committees in Value and Probability.- Appendix I.- Curriculum Vitae of Duncan Black.

Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice

The Unpublished Works of Duncan Black

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