Concepts -- Introduction and background -- Private activities -- Dimension of the public sector -- The orthodox economic approach -- Models of federalism -- Citizens and governments -- Constituent assemblies -- Least-cost models of federalism -- Representative government models -- Special topics -- The selection of topics -- The assignment of redistribution functions -- The assignment of stabilization functions -- The role of grants in the assignment process -- index
Summary
A study of ";economic imperialism"; based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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