Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law

Download or read book Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law written by Maxwell L. Stearns and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stearns and Zywicki's Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law is the only course book specifically designed to instruct law students in the discipline of public choice. The book provides a comprehensive but nontechnical overview of interest group theory, social choice theory, game theory, and elementary price theory. It ties these concepts to a wide range of topics in both public and private law. The book contains chapters devoted to each set of methodological tools and specific institutional settings: legislatures, courts, executive branch and bureaus, and constitutions.