Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers The Economic Engine of Political Change

Name: Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers The Economic Engine of Political Change
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ISBN: 9780804793391

ISBN-10: 0804793395

ISBN-13: 9780804793391

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edward J. Lï¿½pez, Wayne A. Leighton

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Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers presents a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change.Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López take up three interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate policies that impose net costs on society? Why do such policies persist over long periods of time, even if they are known to be socially wasteful and better alternatives exist? And, why do certain wasteful policies eventually get repealed, while others endure? The authors examine these questions through familiar policies in contemporary American politics, but also draw on examples from around the world and throughout history.Assuming that…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English