Economics, governance and law : essays on theory and policy / Warren J. Samuels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samuels, Warren J., 1933-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: The Problem of Government and Governance ix

1. An Essay on Government and Governance 1

2. The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 39

3. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality 61

4. Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of Economic Thought: An Interpretive Essay 81

5. An Essay on the Unmagic of Norms and Rules and of Markets 95

6. Theories of Property 103

7. Property and Philosophy 111

8. Population Density and the Positive Theory of Property 119

9. Some Problems in the Use of Language in Economics 123

10. The Problem of Double Taxation 135

11. Walter Adams and James W. Brock's The Tobacco Wars: The Final Shot of a Warrior for Competitive Markets and Responsible Government 141

12. The Economic Role of Government As, In Part, A Matter of Selective Perception, Sentiment and Valuation: The Cases of Pigovian and Paretian Welfare Economics / Steven G. Medema 151

13. Buchanan and Musgrave on Public Finance and Public Choice: A Review Essay 171

14. An Essay on Paretian Fraud, Constitutions and Revolution 183.

Notes:

Some essays originally published 1999-2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840648562

OCLC:

49225996