Editors:
- Provides a public choice analysis of government growth
- Focuses on taxation, trade openness, technology, income changes, and tax compliance
- Features prominent scholars such as Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, Casey Mulligan, Gordon Tullock, Randall Holcombe, and Tyler Cowen
Part of the book series: Studies in Public Choice (SIPC, volume 40)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book contains eight papers focusing on factors associated with the growth of government. There is a large literature in public economics, especially public choice, on the determinants of the growth of government. The papers in this volume focus on a number of arguments related to why government has grown in many developed countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters focus on taxation, trade openness, technology, income changes, and tax compliance. The volume features prominent scholars such as Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, Casey Mulligan, Gordon Tullock, Randall Holcombe, and Tyler Cowen.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
Joshua Hall
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College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
Bryan Khoo
About the editors
Bryan Khoo is currently a graduate student at West Virginia University (US) in the Ph.D. program. He earned his bachelor degree in Economics from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essays on Government Growth
Book Subtitle: Political Institutions, Evolving Markets, and Technology
Editors: Joshua Hall, Bryan Khoo
Series Title: Studies in Public Choice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55081-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55080-6Published: 23 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55083-7Published: 23 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55081-3Published: 22 December 2020
Series ISSN: 0924-4700
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 165
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Governance and Government