Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521481021)

Competitive Governments systematically explores the hypothesis that governments are internally competitive, that they are competitive in their relations with each other and in their relations with other institutions in society which, like them, supply consuming households with goods and services. Breton contends that competition not only serves to bring the political system to an equilibrium, but it also leads to a revelation of the households' true demand functions for publicly provided goods and services and to the molding of a link between the quantities and the qualities demanded and supplied and the tax prices paid for these goods and services.

Author: Albert Breton
ISBN-10: 0521481023
ISBN-13: 9780521481021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/1996
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.29w x 1.17d