Summaries tagged Economics

• Alchian and Demsetz: Production, information costs, and economic organization
• Alchian and Demsetz: Property Right Paradigm
• Barro and Gordon: Rules, discretion, and reputation in a model of monetary policy
• Bates: Markets and states in tropical Africa
• Becker: A theory of competition among pressure groups for political influence
• Coase: The lighthouse in economics
• Coase: The nature of the firm
• Coase: The problem of social cost
• Demsetz: Toward a theory of property rights
• Drazen: Political economy in macroeconomics
• Drazen: The political business cycle after 25 years
• Dubner and Levitt: Why vote
• Greif, Milgrom, and Weingast: Coordination, commitment, and enforcement
• Greif: Cultural beliefs and the organization of society
• Hardin: Economic theories of the state
• Hardin: Efficiency
• Hardin: The tragedy of the commons
• Hart: Incomplete contracts and the theory of the firm
• Hibbs: Political parties and macroeconomic policy
• Klein: Fisher-General Motors and the nature of the firm
• Krueger: The political economy of rent-seeking
• Libecap: Economic variables and the development of the law
• McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast: Administrative procedures as instruments of political control
• Meltzer and Richards: A rational theory of the size of government
• Milgrom and Roberts: Bargaining costs, influence activities, and the organization of economic activity
• Milgrom, North, and Weingast: The role of institutions in the revival of trade
• Moe: The politics of structural choice
• Niskanen: Bureaucrats and politicians
• Noll: Economics perspectives on the politics of regulation
• Nordhaus: The political business cycle
• Olson: Power and prosperity
• Olson: The logic of collective action
• Ostrom: Governing the commons
• Peltzman: Toward a more general theory of regulation
• Root: Tying the King's hands
• Shleifer and Vishny: Corruption
• Smith: Constructivist and ecological rationality in economics
• Stevens: The economics of collective choice
• Stigler: The theory of economic regulation
• Tiebout: A pure theory of local expenditures
• Tullock: The costs of special privilege
• Varian: Intermediate microeconomics
• Viscusi, Vernon, and Harrington: Economics of Regulation and Antitrust
• Weingast and Marshall: The industrial organization of Congress
• Williamson: The economics of organization