Perspectives on positive political economy
- New York Cambridge University Press 1990
- x,268p. 23 cm ; Pbk
The New Political Economy -- The emerging discipline of political economy / Peter C. Ordeshook -- Macropolitical economy in the field of development / Robert H. Bates -- Organizations, Transactions, and Opportunities -- Bargaining costs, influence costs, and the organization of economic activity / Paul Milgrom, John Roberts -- Corporate culture and economic theory / David M. Kreps -- Amenity potential, indivisibilities, and political competition / Harold Demsetz -- Reflections on Theoretical Foundations -- Political science and rational choice / William H. Riker -- Institutions and a transaction-cost theory of exchange / Douglass C. North -- The costs of special privilege / Gordon Tullock -- Toward a unified view of economics and the other social sciences / Mancur Olson.
"Commissioned pieces for a series of seminars on political economy held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Harvard University in the fall of 1987"--P. x. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index.
978-0521398517
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