Public Choice

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PUBLIC CHOICE

Edited by

JULIEN VAN DEN BROECK Professor of Economics, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.

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Publie choiee / edited by Julien van den Broeek. p. eil. A seleetion of papers presented at the annual eonferenee of the Assoeiation of Post-Keynesian Studies at the Erasllus University, Rotterdall. the Netherlands, Oetober 2, 1987. Ineludes bibliographies and indexes. 1. Soeial ehoiee--Congresses. I. Broeek, Julien van den, 194211. Assoeiation of Post-Keynesian Studies. HB846.8.P82 1988 302'.13--de19 88-13174 CIP ISBN 978-94-015-7786-1 ISBN 978-94-015-7784-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-7784-7

All Rights Reserved © 1988 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Association ofPost-Keynesian Studies in 1988. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical inc1uding photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without wriuen permission from the copyright owner.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contributing Authors and Summary Part One

Publie Choiee

1

the State of the Art

1

The Economk Theory of Politica1 Decision Making A Survey and Perspective Frans A.A.M. van Winden

9

2

Critica1 Notes on the Neoclassica1 Theory of the Interaction of Politics and Economics. A Comment on van Winden Jörg GJombowski Part Two

43

Publie Choke and Maeroeconomie Policy

3 Publie Choke Theory and Maeroeconomie Policy Vani K Borooah

4 Publie Choke and Maeroeconomic Poliey A Comment on V. K Borooah Dirk Heremans

61

91

vi

Part Three : Public Choice and Public Investment Policy 5 The managerial Analysis of Public Infrastructure Investment Policies Alain Verbeke

105

Index, author

145

Index, subject

149

1

Contributing Authors and Summary

The articles published in this book are the result of a selection of the papers

presented

Post-Keynesian

at

the

Studies

annual

at

the

conference Erasmus

of

the

University,

Association Rotterdam,

of the

Netherlands, October 2, 1987. As one of its major aims, the Association of Post-Keynesian Studies (APKS)

encourages

research

covering

various

classic disciplines.

Public

choice theory is one of these research fields where several disciplines such as economics and political science meet and consequently is an apt theme for investigation setting

to

an

APKS annual

of be

decision-making affect

the of

contributions in economists

the

utmost

policies. this book

but

also

Moreover

APKS

behaviour of governments in a

processes

economic

conference.

to

and

importance, the

Consequently,

institutional

APKS

are of interest not everybody

modern

because it

possible

dealing

considers

the

economic

can clarify the factors

is of opinion

which

that

the

only to Post-Keynesian with

governments

in

a

professi