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Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement

The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (with Gordon Tullock)

Gordon Tullock

Preface

Part I. The Conceptual Framework

1. Introduction

2. The Individualistic Postulate

3. Politics and the Economic Nexus

4. Individual Rationality in Social Choice

Part II. The Realm of Social Choice

5. The Organization of Human Activity

6. A Generalized Economic Theory of Constitutions

7. The Rule of Unanimity

8. The Costs of Decision-Making

Part III. Analyses of Decision-Making Rules

9. The Structure of the Models

10. Simple Majority Voting

11. Simple Majority Voting and the Theory of Games

12. Majority Rule, Game Theory, and Pareto Optimality

13. Pareto Optimality, External Costs, and Income Redistribution

14. The Range and Extent of Collective Action

15. Qualified Majority Voting Rules, Representation, and the Interdependence of Constitutional Variables

16. The Bicameral Legislature

17. The Orthodox Model of Majority Rule

Part IV. The Economics and the Ethics of Democracy

18. Democratic Ethics and Economic Efficiency

19. Pressure Groups, Special Interests, and the Constitution

20. The Politics of the Good Society

Appendix 1 Marginal Notes on Reading Political Philosophy

Appendix 2 Theoretical Forerunners

Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice

The Demand and Supply of Public Goods

Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory

The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (with Richard E. Wagner)

The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution (with Geoffrey Brennan)

The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (with Geoffrey Brennan)

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