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More on More Efficient Tax Systems Leading to Bigger Government
…in Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government (NBER Working Paper Number No. 6789) , [Gary Becker and Casey Mulligan] conclude that flatter and broader taxes also tend to encourage bigger government...
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Modern democracy: the power to replace governments at periodic elections
Citizens do have sufficient knowledge and sophistication to vote out leaders who are performing poorly or contrary to their wishes. Modern democracy is government subject to electoral checks. The power...
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Richard Posner on the drivers of interest group capture of regulatory agencies
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Paul Heyne on good government
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The public choice economics of Winston Churchill
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Groucho Marx on evidence-based policy
HT: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies – Groucho Marx — Old Whig (@aClassicLiberal) October 27, 2014 Filed...
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Bruce Yandle on interest group capture of regulatory agencies
Filed under: economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking Tagged: Bruce Yandle, creative destruction, interest group capture, public choice, The...
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Must everything be a crisis
Filed under: comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tagged: public choice
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George Stigler’s theory of economic regulation
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The pay of state politicians in America is low
Filed under: politics - USA, Public Choice Tagged: politician's pay, public choice
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