LEADER 00000cam a2200697Ma 4500 001 ocn823654650 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040734.9 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 120430s2013 caua ob 001 0 eng d 019 818817376|a900743473 020 9780804783965|q(electronic book) 020 0804783969|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780804780971|q(cloth ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z0804780978 020 |z0804793395 020 |z9780804793391 035 (OCoLC)823654650|z(OCoLC)818817376|z(OCoLC)900743473 040 E7B|beng|epn|cE7B|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dYDXCP|dOCLCF|dN$T|dOCLCQ |dEBLCP|dDEBSZ|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 JF1525.P6|bL45 2013eb 072 7 POL|x032000|2bisacsh 072 7 POL|x040000|2bisacsh 072 7 POL|x030000|2bisacsh 072 7 POL|x018000|2bisacsh 082 04 320.6|223 090 JF1525.P6|bL45 2013eb 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 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 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:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=713437|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID