| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political planning -- Economic aspects.
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Political planning -- Economic aspects. |
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Political planning. |
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Policy sciences -- Economic aspects.
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Policy sciences -- Economic aspects. |
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Policy sciences. |
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Political entrepreneurship.
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Political entrepreneurship. |
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Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
López, Edward J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leighton, Wayne A., 1965- Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012016315 |
| ISBN |
9780804783965 (electronic book) |
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0804783969 (electronic book) |
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9780804780971 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804780978 |
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0804793395 |
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9780804793391 |
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