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Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers : the economic engine of political change / Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López

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Leighton, Wayne A., 1965-
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
López, Edward J.
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Contents
Ideas and the rules of politics -- The never-ending quest for good government -- Economists join the battle of political ideas -- Public choice : how we get bad policies and get stuck with them, or not -- How ideas matter for political change -- Four stories of political change -- What is to be done? : assembling the wisdom.
Summary
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers offers up a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change. In order to distill the smorgasbord of scholarship on political evolution, Madmen takes up three fundamental, interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate policies that impose net costs on society? Why do such policies persist over long periods of time, even though they may be widely known to be socially wasteful and even though better alternatives could be implemented? And why do certain wasteful policies eventually get re.
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9780804783965 (electronic bk.)
0804783969 (electronic bk.)
9780804780971 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804780978
0804793395
9780804793391
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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