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Introduction Roland Vaubel and Thomas D. Willett Part One The Public Choice Approach to International Economic Issues and Organizations: Theory Chapter 1 The Public Choice View of International Political Economy Bruno S. Frey Chapter 2 A Public Choice View of International Organization Roland Vaubel Chapter 3 Canons of Public Choice Analysis of International Agreements Rodney T. Smith Chapter 4 International Organizations from the Constitutional Point of View Bruno S. Frey and Beat Gygi Chapter 5 Approaches to the Study of International Organizations: Major Paradigms in Economics and Political Science Patricia Dillon, Thomas L. Ilgen and Thomas D. Willett Chapter 6 International Institutions and the Market for Information Michele Fratianni and John Pattison Part Two Applications Chapter 7 The GATT as an International Discipline over Trade Restrictions: A Public Choice Approach J. Michael Finger Chapter 8 A Public Choice Perspective of the International Energy Program Rodney T. Smith Chapter 9 U.S. Policy and the Law of the Sea Conference, 1969-1982: A Case Study of Multilateral Negotiations Ross D. Eckert Chapter 10The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund: A Public Choice Analysis Roland Vaubel Chapter 11Determinants of Foreign Aid Under Alternative Institutional Arrangements Hannelore Weck-Hannemann and Friedrich Schneider Chapter 12 Unanimous Decisions in a Redistributive Context: The Council of Ministers of the European Communities William S. Peirce Chapter 13 The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community: A Public Choice Interpretation Tim Josling and H. Wayne Moyer Chapter 14 A Public Choice View of the Delors Report Roland Vaubel
Summary
This book focuses on the nature of the public choice approach and many of the types of issues it raises. It presents a number of specific applications of public choice theory to the analysis of major international and regional economic organizations.
