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The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice: a masterful compendium

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This is a review article of The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, edited by Roger Congleton, Bernard Grofman, and Stefan Voigt. This two-volume collection has 90 chapters, with each chapter averaging 20.4 pages (excluding the volumes’ indexes). My subtitle conveys my judgment of this work. The articles are written for serious readers, and they give clear and concise statements of the material they cover. Someone who reads one of the articles will arrive in the vicinity of the frontier of the mainstream of public choice theorizing as this has developed since the middle of the twentieth century. Despite my position from somewhere outside the public choice mainstream, I acknowledge readily and enthusiastically the ability of the essays in this Handbook to convey the contemporary state of public choice theorizing. The editors and authors deserve congratulations for their fine work.

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  • Richard E. Wagner, 2019. "The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice: a masterful compendium," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 30(4), pages 467-479, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:copoec:v:30:y:2019:i:4:d:10.1007_s10602-019-09286-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10602-019-09286-2
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    Keywords

    Public choice; Constitutional political economy; Voting; Elections; Interest groups; Rent seeking; Political parties; Dictatorship;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A33 - General Economics and Teaching - - Multisubject Collective Works - - - Handbooks
    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
    • H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
    • P50 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - General

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