Public Economics and Public Choice

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Rights and Wrongs

   • Dennis C. Mueller

   Pages 1-18

3. Public Choice and New Institutional Economics

   • Christian Kirchner

   Pages 19-37

4. The Machiavelli Program and the Dirty Hands Problem

   • Manfred J. Holler

   Pages 39-62

5. Esteem, Norms of Participation and Public Goods Supply

   • Geoffrey Brennan, Michael Brooks

   Pages 63-80

6. Fairness, Rights, and Language Rights: On the Fair Treatment of Linguistic Minorities

   • Bengt-Arne Wickström

   Pages 81-101

7. Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth

   • Lars P. Feld, Horst Zimmermann, Thomas Döring

   Pages 103-133

8. Government Bankruptcy and Inflation

   • Peter Bernholz

   Pages 135-145

9. Political Support for Tax Complexity: A Simple Model

   • Pio Baake, Rainald Borck

   Pages 147-156

10. Does the Shadow Economy Pose a Challenge to Economic and Public Finance Policy? - Some Preliminary Findings

    • Friedrich Schneider

    Pages 157-180

11. The Rankings and Evaluations Mania

    • Bruno S. Frey

    Pages 181-192

12. University Education as Welfare?

    • Roland Vaubel

    Pages 193-199

13. The Economics of Environmental Liability Law — A Dynamic View

    • Alfred Endres, Regina Bertram, Bianca Rundshagen

    Pages 201-219

14. On the Efficiency of a Public Insurance Monopoly: The Case of Housing Insurance in Switzerland

    • Gebhard Kirchgässner

    Pages 221-242

15. A Note on David Hansemann as a Precursor of Chadwick and Demsetz

    • Bernhard Wieland

    Pages 243-255

16. ‘Stepping Stones’ and ‘Access Holidays’: The Fallacies of Regulatory Micro-Management

    • Günter Knieps, Patrick Zenhäusern

    Pages 257-277

17. Back Matter

    Pages 279-280

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This volume collects essays in honor of Charles Beat Blankart on the oc- th sion of his 65 birthday. Blankart's research is mainly in the area of public finance and public choice. He is also known for his interest in real world problems and intellectual curiosity. These features seem to be well c- veyed by the contributions. Born in Switzerland, Blankart completed his Ph. D. in Basel before moving to Germany. The typically Swiss perspective on individual freedom, h- ever, has remained with him. Blankart has taught at the Free University of Berlin, the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Technical University and Humboldt University in Berlin. Throughout his prof- sional positions, Blankart has contributed to various fields, including p- lic finance, public choice, federalism and industrial organization and re- lation. He has left significant marks in these fields, emphasizing throughout how incentives shape the behaviour of individuals, be it in markets or in government. For example, his best selling textbook - fentliche Finanzen in der Demokratie, is unique in bringing a unified p- spective to the study of public finance, treating politicians as ordinary self interested individuals and doing largely away with the benevolent welfare maximizing social planner.

• Education
• Faithers
• Institutional Economics
• Mueller
• Norms
• Public Choice
• Public economics
• Voting
• new institutional economics

• Informationsgesellschaft und Wettbewerb, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Pio Baake

• Department of Economics, University of Munich, München, Germany

  Rainald Borck

Policies and ethics