Public Supply and Demand : A Political Theory of Economies and Markets.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budge, Ian, author.

Whiteley, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central planning.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Eminent political economists Ian Budge and Paul Whiteley make a forceful case for bringing the state back into economic planning for better economic and political outcomes.They do so primarily by calling attention to the shortcomings of axiomatic, neoclassical economic theorizing, which makes normative assumptions about how economic actors ought.

Contents:

Preface Part I. The Political Configuration of Economies 1. Economic Science: Still the Prisoner of the State? 2. Collective Choice and Collective Action: Policy Making - Enforcement and Responsiveness Part II. Responding to Needs 3. Private Markets and Collective Choice: Coping with Risk and Uncertainty 4. Coping with Anticipated Risk: Market and Government Responses to Climate Change Part III. Meeting Preferences through Markets 5. Free-market Demand and Supply Revisited: Axiomatic Theories Confront Economic Realities 6. An Economic Theory of Democracy: Axiomatic Theories Confront Political Realities Part IV. Responding to Preferences Through Democratic Processes 7. General Elections, Parties, and Voters 8. Policy Supply and Demand: Macro-level Responsiveness 9. Policy Supply and Demand: Micro-level Responsiveness through Thermostatic Adjustments Part V. Back to Political Economy 10. Predictive versus Axiomatic Explanation

ISBN:

1-350-51265-6

1-350-51263-X

1-350-51264-8

9781350512634

OCLC:

1549520959