Competition and Structure - The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton (Paperback)

The essays in this volume, written by well-known economists and other social scientists from North America, Europe and Australia, share to an unusual degree a common concern with the competitive mechanisms that underlie collective decisions and with the way they are embedded in institutional settings. This gives the book a unitary inspiration whose value is clear from the understanding and insights its chapters provide on important theoretical and practical issues such as the social dimension and impact of trust, the management of information in bureaucratic settings, the role of political parties in constitutional evolution, inter-level rivalry and reassignments of powers in federal and unitary systems of government, the impact of ethnicity and nationalism on federal institutions or arrangements, and the response of governments and overarching institutions of globalization. The essays were written in honour of Albert Breton, a pioneer in this field of investigation.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	October 2008
Editors:	Gianluigi Galeotti • Pierre Salmon • Ronald Wintrobe
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-08820-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Promotions
LSN:	0-521-08820-8
Barcode:	9780521088206

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