The Making of Economic Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Economic Policy write by Avinash K. Dixit. This book was released on 1998-09-01. The Making of Economic Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of economic policy. Avinash Dixit looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. Such costs of planning, implementing, and monitoring an exchange have proved critical to explaining many phenomena in industrial organization. Dixit discusses the variety of similar transaction costs encountered in the political process of making economic policy and how these costs affect the operation of different institutions and policies. Dixit organizes a burgeoning body of research in political economy in this framework. He uses U.S. fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework, and show how policy often deviates from the economist's ideal of efficiency. The approach reveals, however, that some seemingly inefficient practices are quite creditable attempts to cope with transaction costs such as opportunism and asymmetric information. Copublished with the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
The National Origins of Policy Ideas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The National Origins of Policy Ideas write by John L. Campbell. This book was released on 2014-04-27. The National Origins of Policy Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and disseminated, and how this process varies between countries. The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative analysis of how "knowledge regimes"—communities of policy research organizations like think tanks, political party foundations, ad hoc commissions, and state research offices, and the institutions that govern them—generate ideas and communicate them to policymakers. John Campbell and Ove Pedersen examine how knowledge regimes are organized, operate, and have changed over the last thirty years in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark. They show how there are persistent national differences in how policy ideas are produced. Some countries do so in contentious, politically partisan ways, while others are cooperative and consensus oriented. They find that while knowledge regimes have adopted some common practices since the 1970s, tendencies toward convergence have been limited and outcomes have been heavily shaped by national contexts. Drawing on extensive interviews with top officials at leading policy research organizations, this book demonstrates why knowledge regimes are as important to capitalism as the state and the firm, and sheds new light on debates about the effects of globalization, the rise of neoliberalism, and the orientation of comparative political economy in political science and sociology.
Economic Politics
Economic Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economic Politics write by William R. Keech. This book was released on 1995-02-24. Economic Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book raises and addresses questions about the consequences of democratic institutions for economic performance.
The Architecture of Policy Transfer
The Architecture of Policy Transfer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architecture of Policy Transfer write by Tim Legrand. This book was released on 2020-12-08. The Architecture of Policy Transfer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the increasing circulation and transfer of public policy ideas between the UK, US and Australia since the 1990s. It argues that the upsurge in policy transfer amongst and between these states can be explained by a structural and shared commitment between these states to a distinctive institutional ideology of policy-making. This ideology, it is claimed, is partly a product of the historical proximity of ‘Anglosphere’ states, and in recent years can be traced through the evolution of New Public Management principles through to Third Way communitarianism.
Economic and Political Institutions in Economic Policy
Economic and Political Institutions in Economic Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economic and Political Institutions in Economic Policy write by Vitantonio Muscatelli. This book was released on 1996. Economic and Political Institutions in Economic Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together leading names from different economic disciplines, the volume includes chapters on elections and the economy, distributional policies and constitutional design, and government and the market.
