The Political Economy of Social Choices
This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions. It focuses on the role that states and governments have on political outcomes and on the well-being of indiv
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Maria Gallego Norman Schofield Editors
The Political Economy of Social Choices
Studies in Political Economy
Series editor Norman Schofield, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13366
Maria Gallego • Norman Schofield Editors
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Editors Maria Gallego Department of Economics Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo Ontario, Canada
ISSN 2364-5903 Studies in Political Economy ISBN 978-3-319-40116-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8
Norman Schofield Department of Political Science Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis Missouri, USA
ISSN 2364-5911 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-40118-8 (eBook)
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Introduction
This volume draws from papers presented at The Political Economy of Social Choices workshop organized by Maria Gallego and Norman Schofield held in Oaxaca, Mexico, in July 2015 and funded by the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), Banff, Calgary, Canada, and by Casa Matematica Oaxaca (CMO), Oaxaca, Mexico. The workshop brought together political economists and social choice theorists and empiricists to Oaxaca to share their current research. The group included prominent senior scholars as well as junior scholars doing their Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis. In the Introduction to this volume, we first give a brief overview of the field before providing a brief summary of the papers included in this volume.
1 Overview of the Field The topics covered in the workshop and in this volume are at the intersection of two broad fields: political economy and social choice. These two f
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