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100 1  Leighton, Wayne A.,|d1965-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
       /names/no2012057181 
245 10 Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers :|bthe 
       economic engine of political change /|cWayne A. Leighton 
       and Edward J. López. 
264  1 Stanford, Calif. :|bStanford Economics and Finance, an 
       imprint of Stanford University Press,|c2013. 
300    1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
650  0 Political planning|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85104377|xEconomic aspects.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh99005484 
650  0 Policy sciences|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85104264|xEconomic aspects.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99005484 
650  0 Political entrepreneurship.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2002008952 
650  0 Economic policy.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85040837 
650  7 Political planning|xEconomic aspects.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1069465 
650  7 Political planning.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1069460 
650  7 Policy sciences|xEconomic aspects.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1068802 
650  7 Policy sciences.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1068796 
650  7 Political entrepreneurship.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/1069285 
650  7 Economic policy.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       902025 
655  4 Electronic books. 
700 1  López, Edward J.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2009066261 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aLeighton, Wayne A., 1965-|tMadmen, 
       intellectuals, and academic scribblers.|dStanford, Calif. 
       : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford 
       University Press, 2013|w(DLC)  2012016315 
856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://
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       current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 
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