COMPETITIVE GOVERNMENTS by Albert Breton ( 9780521646284 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

COMPETITIVE GOVERNMENTS
AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC FINANCE

By:

Albert Breton

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521646286

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9780521646284

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 September, 1998

Pages:

404

Description:

Competitive Governments explores in a systematic way the hypothesis that governments are internally competitive.

Synopsis:

Competitive Governments, explores in a systematic way the hypothesis that governments are internally competitive, that they are competitive in their relations with each other and in their relations with other institutions in society which, like them, supply consuming households with goods and services. Breton contends that competition not only serves to bring the political system to an equilibrium, but it also leads to a revelation of the households' true demand functions for publicly provided goods and services and to the molding of a link between the quantities and the qualities demanded and supplied and the tax prices paid for these goods and services. In the real world where information is costly, the links may not be first-best, but they will be efficient if competition is vigorous.

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Cambridge University Press

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