Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice

1. Front Matter

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2. History

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introductory Notes

      • Gordon L. Brady, Gordon Tullock

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   3. Hobbes’s Contribution to Abstract Political Science

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   4. How Expenditure of the Tax Proceeds Came to be Disregarded in the Theory of Incidence

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   5. Historical Notes: The Pythagoreans, Rev. C. L. Dodgson, Knut Wicksell and Lord Keynes

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   6. Some Notes on the Development and Structure of the Theory of Committees

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3. Epistemology

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introductory Notes

      • Gordon L. Brady, Gordon Tullock

      Pages 65-65

   3. Some Important Distinctions: The Traditional Distinction Between Instrumental and Independent Actions

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   4. Rational Behavior

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   5. The Mechanism of Hedonistic Choice

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   6. The Commensurability of Intensities of Desires (Pleasures)

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      Pages 93-109

   7. That the Same Mathematical Model Applies in Epistemology

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   8. The Assumptions — Imperfect Knowledge, Divided Expectations and the Discount

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      Pages 119-123

4. Logrolling

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introductory Notes

      • Gordon L. Brady, Gordon Tullock

      Pages 127-129

   3. On Logrolling

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      Pages 131-132

   4. Logrolling

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   5. Wicksell’s Use of the Theory of Committees in Public Finance

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Duncan Black made a significant contribution to the development of public choice theory during his lifetime. Upon his death it became apparent that much of his scholarship and critique of economics was never published. Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice is a collection of Duncan Black's unpublished works, representing his continuing contribution to economics and political science. It provides an insight into Black's intellectual endeavors and introduces some new ideas and extensions of earlier work.

• Abstract
• Action
• Political Science
• Public Choice
• behavior
• curriculum
• death
• development
• geometry
• knowledge
• psychology
• school
• science

• George Mason University, USA

  Gordon L. Brady

• University of Arizona, USA

  Gordon Tullock

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