书目名称 | Markets and Politicians | 副标题 | Politicized economic | 编辑 | Arye L. Hillman | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Studies in Public Choice | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Arye L. Hillman There has been much economic theorizing directed at providing the politician with guidance in the design of policies that will amend market outcomes in ways that achieve specified efficiency or equity objectives. It has been common practice in economic models to portray the politician who implements the policy recommendations as a mechanistic individual who behaves as would a benevolent dictator to maximize a prespecified conception of social welfare or the utility of a representative consumer. The self-interest and discretion that is attributed to firms and consumers as optimizing agents is absent from the motives of such a politician. Economic policy choice is thereby depoliticized. How well depoliticized economic theory fares in explaining or predicting economic policy choice depends naturally enough upon how politicized is the economic system in which economic and political agents function. The papers in this volume recognize that politicians may exercise sufficient discretion so as not to behave mechanistically in correcting market inefficiencies or in pursuit of a somehow specified just income distribution. Since politicians are viewed as self-interested optim | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | China; Eastern Europe; International Economic Policy; Intervention; Policy; economic policy; economy; fisca | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3882-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-5728-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-3882-6Series ISSN 0924-4700 Series E-ISSN 2731-5258 | issn_series | 0924-4700 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991 |
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