The Reason of Rules - Constitutional Political Economy

Klappentext This book is about rules - what they are! how they work! and how they can be properly analysed. Zusammenfassung Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill! and how they can be made to work better! is a matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted! the working of social rules is also the central subject matter of modern political economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The constitutional imperative; 2. The contractarian vision; 3. The myth of benevolence; 4. Modelling the individual for constitutional analysis; 5. Time, temptation, and the constrained future; 6. Politics without rules, I: Time and non-constrained collective action; 7. rules and justice; 8. Politics without rules, II: Distributive justice and distributive politics; 9. Is constitutional revolution possible in democracy?

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey Buchanan Brennan, Brennan Geoffrey, James M. Buchanan, Buchanan James M., Brennan Geoffrey
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521070904
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07090-4
• Seiten: 168
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: Print on Demand
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy