Principled Agents?: The Political Economy of Good Government (The Lindahl Lectures)

by TimothyBesley (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $146.37

  Mainstream policy economics pays more attention to the delivery of policy outcomes and how incentives and institutional change shape the effectiveness of government. But should these issues be studied against a background of purely self-interested public servants? The lectures in this title review how economic thought on these issues has evolved.