Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy

Rosolino Candela is a Senior Fellow of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and a Program Director of Academic and Student Programs, both at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Rosemarie Fike is an Instructor of Economics at Texas Christian University and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. Roberta Herzberg is a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

• Introduction by Rosolino A. Candela, Rosemarie Fike, and Roberta HerzbergPart I: Education PolicyChapter 1: Rise of a Centropoly: Good Intentions, Distorted Incentives, and the Cloaked Costs of Top-Down Reform in US Public Education by Martha Bradley-DorseyChapter 2: Group Identity and Unintended Consequences of School Desegregation by Nathaniel BurkePart II: Federal PolicyChapter 3: Compensating the Innocent: Hayekian Considerations for Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statutes by Dora DuruChapter 4: Rent-Seeking in Medicaid Managed Care by Neil McCrayChapter 5: Banking on the Masses: Mainstreaming Marginal Legal Entrepreneurship along with the Trappings of Transitional Gains, 1910 to 1940 by Thomas B. StorrsPart III: International PolicyChapter 6: Taking Time and Distinct Law Types Seriously: How the Effects of CSO Laws Vary by Type and Unfold over Time by Anthony J. DeMatteePart IV: Public GovernanceChapter 7: A Tale of One City: Lavasa as a Coasian Prototype of a Private Urban Develo