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Competition and Structure
Albert Breton
其他書名
The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2000-06-05
主題
Business & Economics / Economic History
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Business & Economics / Economics / Theory
Business & Economics / Commerce
Business & Economics / Industrial Management
Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
ISBN
0521771331
9780521771337
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EOdE2AzfyPsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The essays in this volume, written by well-known economists and other social scientists from North America, Europe, and, in one case, Australia, share to an unusual degree a common concern with the competitive mechanisms that underlie collective decisions and with the way they are embedded in institutional settings. This gives the book a unitary inspiration whose value is clear from the new understanding and insights its chapters provide on important theoretical and practical issues such as the social dimension and impact of trust, the management of information in bureaucratic settings, the role of political parties in constitutional evolution, inter-level rivalry and reassignments of powers in federal and unitary systems of government, the impact of ethnicity and nationalism on federal institutions or arrangements, and the response of governments and overarching institutions of globalization