Public choice is the study of behavior at the intersection of economics and political science. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the field and its applications. It covers a wide array of topics, including regulation and antitrust, taxation, trade liberalization, political corruption, and interest group behavior.

Explores political market behaviour that is based on conflict rather than on bargaining and thus behaviour that results in wealth reduction rather than in gains from trade. This book was written in response to the tumultuous events of the 1960s and 1970s, and it draws from two books by Gordon Tullock, The Social Dilemma and Autocracy .

This text makes the case for an approach to constitutional political economy that is grounded in consistent public choice analysis. A list of public choice scholars pursue this approach against a varying backcloth of constitutional issues relevant to a number of countries worldwide.

Includes contributions to the theory and application of public choice, which links economics and political action. This title covers such diverse public choice topics as: the nature and origins of public choice, the power of using economic analysis to understand and predict the behaviour of politically influenced markets, and more.