Recent Books By George Mason Law School Faculty
The faculty of the George Mason University School of Law
is among the most prolific and influential group of legal
scholars in the United States. According to the 2003-04
New Educational Quality Ranking of U.S. Law Schools
(EQR), our faculty ranks 23rd among all American law schools
for scholarly impact which reflects the frequency with which
other scholars cite the faculty's publications and books.
The same study also ranks the law school's faculty 9th in
the nation for quality in law and economics. The School
of Law has attracted a distinctive, interdisciplinary faculty,
many of whom hold doctorates in economics, philosophy, political
science, or related fields. Below are some of the most recent
books published by members of the faculty. These publications
reflect the lively, innovative, and intellectual orientation
of a faculty that has propelled George Mason School of Law
into the top tier of U.S. law schools.
Peter Berkowitz
Varieties
of Conservatism in America
Edited by Peter Berkowitz
Hoover Institution Press, 2004
Paperback: 167 pages
ISBN:
0-8179-4572-5
For more information, see Hoover Institution Press
The essays in this volume demonstrate that the debate
among conservatives about which principles and practices
are most urgently in need of protection is also a debate
with and within that larger liberalism that undergirds
the American constitutional order. The essays suggest as
well that this larger liberalism, with its bedrock devotion
to individual liberty and equality before the law, serves
as the common ground on which the contending camps within
conservatism—and indeed conservatives
in their contentions with progressives—can come together,
debate civilly, and discover ways to advance the public
good.
Varieties of Progressivism in America
Edited by Peter Berkowitz
Hoover Institution Press, 2004
Paperback
ISBN:
0817945822
For more information, see Hoover Institution Press
Whereas conservatives in America often disagree over which
moral and political goods are most urgently in need of
conservation, contemporary progressives are principally
divided over the means-the kinds of government action-for
achieving the progressive ends around which they unite.
Varieties of Progressivism in America focuses on the debates
within the party of progress about how best to increase
opportunity in America and to make social and political
life more egalitarian.The contributors to this volume,
offering different expertise and different perspectives,
combine varying voices, terminology, and views of American
politics to provide a better sense of the different meanings
of progressivism in our nation today. They examine the
Old Democrats of the New Deal, the contributions of the
Clinton-era New Democrats, and the future of progressivism
in America.
Never
a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic
Edited by Peter Berkowitz
Hoover Institution Press, 2003
Paperback: 161 pages
ISBN: 0817939628
For more information, see Hoover
Institution Press.
In this first book generated by the Hoover Institution's
Initiative on American Individualism and Values, the contributors
reveal how, over the last several decades, public policy
in the United States has weakened the institutions of civil
society—which play a critical role in forming and sustaining
the qualities of mind and character crucial to democratic
self-government. The authors examine
How we deal with the tension between liberty (doing what
you want) and virtue (doing what you ought)
- How the upheavals of the 1960s transformed liberalism
in a "religion of rights," undermining individual
freedom by demanding unbending fidelity to political agenda
- The impact of civic associations on our virtues and
values—and why the government must resist conscripting
them and find a way to preserve their independence
- How public schools have come to have a negative influence
on students' virtues and values—and why neither public
nor private schools can replace or compensate for the
education of character that takes place outside of school,
particularly in the family
- Why marriage and the family today run contrary to our
natures and thus are in a state of disarray—and how
specific public policies can strengthen marriage
Although no individual author agrees with every observation
and every assertion in every essay, they are united in believing
that the defense of liberty in our day requires rethinking
the complex relation between a citizen's character, civil
society, and government.
David E. Bernstein
You
Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from
Antidiscrimination Laws
By David E. Bernstein
Cato Institute, 2003
Hardcover: 197 pages
ISBN: 1930865538
For more information, see David
Bernstein's website.
Should you be able to tell a racy joke at work? Should
an overweight girl demand to be a ballerina? Should college
students have the right to free speech on campus? In this
new book from the Cato Institute, David E. Bernstein argues
that a host of antidiscrimination laws are beginning to
threaten our basic civil liberties. In a misguided attempt
to rid our society of every vestige of "discrimination,"
activists and judges are using antidiscrimination laws to
erode civil liberties such as free speech, the exercise
of religion, and freedom of association. Civil rights laws
are being applied in ways that threaten speech on campus
and in the workplace, the right of local community leaders
to speak out against government policies, the rights of
private associations such as the Boy Scouts to determine
their membership policies, and even the rights of individuals
to choose their roommates.
In example after example, from freedom of speech to artistic
expression to religion, You Can't Say That! reveals
the profound threat to civil liberties posed by antidiscrimination
laws.
The
New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence
By D. H. Kaye, David E. Bernstein, Jennifer
L. Mnookin, Richard D. Friedman, Edward J. Imwinkelried,
David P. Leonard
Aspen, 2003
ISBN: 0735545553
For more information, see Aspen
Publishers.
Reach for the modern-day evidence masterpiece for authoritative
answers to changing evidentiary issues in civil and criminal
litigation. The latest volume, Expert Evidence, describes
and analyzes all major facets of the law of evidence pertaining
to expert evidence including:
- New Federal Rule 702 on expert testimony implementing
the Supreme Court s opinions in Daubert, Joiner, and Kumho
Tire
- Cases questioning the admissibility of previously established
techniques in forensic science such as fingerprints and
handwriting analysis
- The use of learned treatises in lieu of or in addition
to experts
- Methods for evaluating statistical evidence and enhancing
statistical testimony at trial neutral experts appointed
by the court and other forms
Francis H. Buckley
Just
Exchange: A Theory of Contract
By Francis H. Buckley
Routledge Press, 2005
Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 0415700272
For more information, see the Routledge Press
F. H. Buckley's new book fills a prominent hole in the
literature, explaining economic terms and jargon with welcome
clarity and examining the moral basis of free contracting,
as well as those cases where bargaining rights might reasonably
be restricted. Along the way the book examines several
philosophical puzzles, such as allegiance requirements,
paternalism and fairness constraints. Buckley approaches
fundamental issues of contract law from an economic perspective,
though the book is far from being overly technical and
will appeal equally to economists, philosophers and law
students. This is a welcome addition to the literature
on law and economics.
The
Morality of Laughter
By Francis H. Buckley
University of Michigan Press, 2003
Hardcover: 242 pages
ISBN: 0472098187
For more information, see the University
of Michigan Press.
“A serious contribution to social and moral philosophy
masquerading as an entertaining anatomy of an under-appreciated
human resource …at once a wise and highly amusing
book…I
laughed aloud, reading The Morality of Laughter.” —Roger
Kimball, The Wall Street Journal
“There are so many good things in this book. … [The]
treatment of the theme is a triumph.”
— New
Criterion
The Morality of Laughter is “written elegantly
and often wittily -- unlike most academic books. Much
of the book's freshness is that it isn't preoccupied with
the literary genre called comedy.” — National
Post
"The last few decades have seen a welcome revival
of scholarly interest in how we should live. But in an age
of relativism that asks us not to be judgmental, the idea
that laughter signals inferiority will seem very old-fashioned.
And so it is." With that unapologetic salvo, Buckley,
in this entirely entertaining book on the serious subject
of laughter, takes the side of the guardians of good taste
in the battle against the soulless forces of modernism.
For those who favor grace over grotesquerie, a so-called
"new classicism" has emerged in recent years as
an antidote to what many thinkers, conservative and otherwise,
view as a perilously cynical decline in standards. But whether
the arts need just a shot of beauty or the aesthetic equivalent
of a heart transplant is still uncertain. What is clear,
however, is that they’ve become a target.
Buckley’s smart bomb? Laughter, which turns out to
be not only the best medicine for living the good life,
but the necessary preemptive strike in what the author sees
as the fight to regain our sense of humor and beauty—even
moral rectitude. "The loss of a sense of humor,"
believes Buckley, "has impoverished academic discourse,
where nonsensical theories that could not survive the test
of ridicule are now taken seriously. Before adopting a fashionable
idea, we ought first to enquire whether it twigs our sense
of humor."
James E. Byrne
Annual Survey of Letter of Credit Law
& Practice
Edited by James E. Byrne
Institute of International Banking Law & Practice,
2004 (Annual)
Hardcover
For more information, see Institute
of International Banking Law & Practice
No other books bring all these materials together under
one cover. Over the years, this series has tracked the developments
in Law and Practice with a completeness that is unparalleled
in the industry. From the interpretation of UCP and ISP,
to revised UCC Article 5 and the UN Convention, everything
is here.
The 500+ page annual yearbook contains all the important
articles, developments in practice, regulatory actions
and case law (in easy to understand abstract form) handsomely
bound and indexed for easy reference.
ICC
Guide to the eUCP: Understanding the Electronic Supplement
to the UCP 500
By James E. Byrne and Dan Taylor
Institute of International Banking Law & Practice
Softcover: 234 pages
ISBN: 9284213088
A thorough, detailed commentary that shows how the electronic
documentary credit rules work in practice. The eUCP, which
came into force in April 2002, is an important addendum
to the UCP 500, ICC's universally used rules on letters
of credit. The new rules permit the presentation of some
or all documents electronically and are expected to revolutionize
the way documentary credits are used. Written by two leading
authorities on the subject, the ICC Guide provides
an invaluable explanation of these rules analyzing each
Article, its background and principles with precision and
clarity.
John L. Costello
Virginia
Criminal Law and Procedure, 3d edition
By John L. Costello
Michie, 2002
Hardcover: 1281 pages, with 2003 Supplement
ISBN: 0327162600
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Virginia Criminal Law and Procedure,
Third Edition is the definitive authority on criminal law
in the Commonwealth of Virginia, offering comprehensive
coverage of dozens of substantive crimes, plus the procedural,
constitutional, and ethical issues involved in criminal
practice. Author John L. Costello discusses problems encountered
in pretrial, trial, and appellate practice - offering valuable
guidance at each stage. From arrest to appeal, Virginia
Criminal Law and Procedure is the practice manual criminal
lawyers in Virginia can't afford to be without.
Ernest Gellhorn
Antitrust
Law And Economics In A Nutshell, 5th Ed.
By Ernest Gellhorn, William
E. Kovacic and Stephen Calkins
West Group, 2004
Paperpack: 617 pages
ISBN: 0314257233
For more information, see Thomson West
Reliable guide on antitrust law. Special attention is
given to the expanded role of evidentiary standards and
the procedural screens in determining litigation outcomes.
A look into recent revisions of public enforcement, immunity-related
doctrines, and government intervention is also included.
Gellhorn's
Cases and Comments on Administrative Law, 10th revised
edition (University Casebook Series)
By Ernest Gellhorn
Foundation Press, 2003
Hardbound: 1392 pages
ISBN: 1587785943
For more information, see Thomson
West™.
After defining the constitutional framework for administration,
the casebook discusses related topics such as downsizing
government, regulators' thirst for information and the Paperwork
Reduction Act, Fourth and Fifth Amendment concerns, Freedom
of Information Act, and the future of the administrative
state.
Michael Steven Green
Nietzsche
and the Transcendental Tradition
By Michael Steven Green
Universiy of Illinois Press, 2002
Hardcover: 200 pages
ISBN: 0252027353
For more information, see the Universiy
of Illinois Press.
In recent years, both analytic thinkers and postmodern
theorists have looked at Friedrich Nietzsche's epistemology
from the perspectives of their philosophical traditions.
Michael Steven Green's penetrating study tries instead to
do justice to Nietzsche's views on truth and knowledge by
looking at them from the perspective of his contemporaries,
particularly the Neo-Kantian philosopher Afrikan Spir, whose
ideas exerted a tremendous influence on Nietzsche's thought.
Despite his generally naturalist outlook, Nietzsche was
committed to an antinaturalist theory of cognition inherited
from Kant and Spir. Green shows how this fundamental tension
in Nietzsche's thought led him to present not only the antirealism
that has commonly been attributed to him in the past, but
two other epistemological positions. These are a denial
of the possibility of human thought entirely, and an error
theory - the argument that all of our judgments are false
- that has strong parallels in Spir's thought and Kant's
antinomies.
Viewing Nietzsche's error theory in light of Kantian transcendental
idealism, Green makes sense of arguments that have previously
confounded Nietzsche interpreters. Green also provides the
first English translations of many passages from Spir's
writings and Nietzsche's notebooks.
In examining Nietzsche's thought through the lens of the
philosophical influences upon him -the philosophers that
Nietzsche himself read - Green establishes a significant
new foundation from which to assess Nietzsche's place in
modern philosophy and culture.
Michael I. Krauss
Legal
Ethics in a Nutshell
By Ronald D. Rotunda & Michael I. Krauss
Publisher: West ; (May 1, 2003)
Paperback: 451 pages
ISBN: 0314143556
For more information, see Thomson
West™.
This Nutshell digests the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility
in a critical fashion. It is an ideal complement to a casebook
that explores deeper theoretical issues. In 2002, for only
the third time, the American Bar Association adopted a major
revised version of its ethics rules. This book incorporates
all the changes made to the old Model Rules, in an historic
context that lets the student understand problems with prior
versions of the Rules and the Model Code. The authors also
discuss and analyze the role of the American Law Institute's
new Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, 3d.
Leandra Lederman
Federal
Tax Practice and Procedure
Leandra Lederman, General Editor, and Ann Murphy,
Upkeep Author
Matthew Bender, 2003-
One volume, looseleaf, updated annually
For more information, see LexisNexis™.
Written by a team of eight tax practitioners and law professors,
Federal Tax Practice and Procedure is the ideal guidebook
for understanding how disputes with the IRS arise and are
resolved. The treatise is filled with hypothetical examples
where our authors show you how to perform difficult tax
calculations and how to apply tax rules and principles in
everyday practice. The authors have also included scores
of tax planning tips, commentaries and observations on the
law, and caveats for the cautious practitioner.
Tax
Controversies: Practice and Procedure, 2nd edition (Casebook
Series)
By Leandra Lederman and Stephen Mazza
Matthew Bender, 2002, with 2004 Supplement
Hardcover
ISBN: 0820553956
For more information, see LexisNexis™.
This casebook and accompanying 2004 supplement
teach the mechanics of tax procedure, while stimulating
students to think about the broader issues that underlie
its structural framework. The casebook begins with an overview
of civil tax procedure and a discussion of ethical issues
that may arise in tax practice. Several of the next chapters
focus on stages in the chronology of a typical civil tax
controversy, from examination through eventual litigation
and tax collection activity. Two chapters explore tax crimes
and criminal tax procedure, and the final two chapters
focus on tax research and representing tax clients. The
extent to which the current procedural rules encourage
or discourage voluntary compliance with the federal tax
system is a theme that runs throughout the book.
Understanding
Corporate Taxation (Understanding Series)
By Leandra Lederman
Matthew Bender, 2002
Paperback
ISBN: 0820547646
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Provides a clear, straightforward explanation
of corporate tax principles. It provides numerous examples,
charts of major concepts, and discusses the major corporate
tax cases. It may be used either with a casebook or on
its own. Like most corporate tax casebooks, it takes a "cradle
to grave" approach that explores the tax consequences
to corporations and their shareholders through the life
cycle of a corporation. In addition, it covers Subchapter
S, reorganizations, anti-abuse measures, and integration
of corporate and shareholder-level taxes.
Kimberly A. Moore
Patent
Litigation and Strategy, 2d edition (American Casebook
Series®)
By Kimberly A. Moore and Paul R Michel and Raphael
V Lupo
West, 2002
Hardbound: 782 pages
ISBN: 031414434X
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West™.
This book sets out governing statutes and rules at the
beginning of each chapter and includes sample litigation
documents where possible. Casebook begins with who to sue,
where to sue, pleading requirements, discovery, and trial
strategy. It then moves into substantive legal issues at
trial and focuses on litigation remedies issues including
injunctive relief, contempt proceedings, and damages. Also
included are post-trial matters including jury instructions,
special verdict forms, the judgment, judgment as a matter
of law, and new trial motions. Finally, the book covers
the appeal process, the unique issues in litigation involving
assignees/assignors and licensees/licensors, and reexamination
and reissue proceedings.
Francesco Parisi
The
Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior
Edited by Francesco Parisi and Vernon L.
Smith
Stanford University Press, 2005
Paperback: 632 pages
ISBN: 0804751447
For more information, see Stanford University Press
This collection of essays explores the most relevant developments
at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special
attention to models of irrational behavior, and draws the
relevant implications of such models for the design of
legal rules and institutions. The book contains contributions
by twenty-seven scholars active in the area of law and
economics, including essays by George Mason faculty: F.H.
Buckley,
Terrence Chorvat,
Kevin McCabe,
Michael E. O'Neill
and Vernon Smith.
Economic
Foundations of Private Law (Elgar Critical Writings
Reader)
Edited by Richard A. Posner and Francesco Parisi
Edward Elgar Publishing, January 2003
Paperback: 669 pages
ISBN: 1843760711
For more information, see Edward
Elgar Publishing.
This paperback reader brings together seminal papers on
law and economics, with special emphasis on the foundational
contributions to the economics of property, contracts and
torts. The growing influence of these writings in the judicial
profession, and in the academic world, underscores the relevance
and importance of these early contributions and the growing
maturity of the law and economics movement. These seminal
papers have provided the foundations for the development
of an overarching economic theory of law and, most importantly,
have opened new areas of research for present and future
generations of jurists and economists alike.
The articles are arranged by theme, with topics including
the methodological foundations of law and economics, the
efficiency of the common law hypothesis, the economics of
property law and the Coase theorem, the economics of contracts
and the economics of tort law. The editors, themselves distinguished
scholars in the field, have written a new introduction to
accompany the readings.
The
Law and Economics of the European Union
By Paul B. Stephan, Francesco Parisi, and Ben Depoorter
LexisNexis, 2003
Hardcover
ISBN: 0820551058
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This compact, clear book emphasizes the essential elements
of European Union law by using case law and comparisons
to analogous doctrines in the implementation of federalism
in the United States.
The EU plays an important role in contemporary international
and business life. The Law and Economics of the European
Union balances the "constitutional" aspects of
the EU; the establishment and the delineation of the institutions,
with emphasize on their powers vis-B-vis the states that
make up the Union; and the regulatory product of the European
Community, in particular the law that implements the freedom
of movement of goods, services, persons and capital. The
book also gives the reader a solid grounding in the core
concepts that explain why EU law looks and works as it does.
Unique and valuable features include:
- an extensive essay on researching issues of European
Law
- a chapter on competition law in the EU, with multiple
comparisons to U.S. antitrust law
Ronald D. Rotunda
Constitutional
Law, 7th edition (Hornbook Series)
By John E. Nowak and Ronald D. Rotunda
Hardcover: 1652 pages
West, 2004
ISBN: 0314144528
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West™
Authoritative coverage analyzes the constitutional issues
that are studied and litigated today. This text presents
the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction,
and the sources of national authority. Discusses federal
commerce and fiscal powers. Overviews individual liberties
and due process. Also covers freedom of speech and religion.
Throughout the book, there are summations of the Supreme
Court’s work and evaluations of the judicial process.
Legal Ethics in a Nutshell
By Ronald D. Rotunda and Michael I. Krauss
See entry under Michael Krauss above.
Modern
Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes, 7th edition (American
Casebook Series)
By Ronald D. Rotunda
Hardcover: 1533 pages
West, 2003
ISBN: 0314145869
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West™
Since the first edition of Modern Constitutional Law was
published nearly 20 years ago, it has continued to be one
of the best sellers in a very competitive market. Professor
Thomas E. Baker, who holds the prestigious James Madison
Chair in Constitutional Law at Drake University, stated
that he has "been so loyal to the Rotunda brand name
over the years," because the book is compact without
being superficial. It "remarkabl[y]" manages "to
include all the important cases yet preserves a fuller set
of opinions to guarantee 'thoughtful classroom discussion.'"
Nowak
and Rotunda's Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance
and Procedure, 3d edition
By Ronald D. Rotunda and John E. Nowak
West, 1999; Last Update: 2003
Hardbound, 5 vols.
For more information, see Thomson
West™.
This treatise provides scholars, practitioners, judges,
and officials with an up-to-date analysis and synthesis
of federal constitutional law. Focus is primarily on the
Supreme Court and incorporates the political, historical,
and economic background of court decisions. The first edition
was acclaimed by scholars, judges, and practitioners. This
new edition follows in its footsteps, providing a thorough,
cogent analysis of every area of constitutional law. Analyzes
constitutional questions in terms of precedent, political
science theory, economics, and American history, thus making
the leading cases understandable concerning both their overall
significance and the precise legal rules that they establish.
Professional Responsibility:
Problems and Materials, 8th edition
By Thomas D. Morgan, Ronald D. Rotunda
Foundation Press, 2003
Hardcover
ISBN: 1587785242
For more information, see Thomson
West™.
This casebook provides detailed information on professional
responsibility. The casebook provides the tools for fast,
easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook
Series, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate
the development of a body of law on a particular subject.
Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany
the cases.
Vernon L. Smith
The
Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior
Edited by Francesco Parisi and Vernon
L. Smith
Stanford University Press, 2005
Paperback: 632 pages
ISBN: 0804751447
For more information, see Stanford
University Press
This collection of essays explores the most relevant developments
at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special
attention to models of irrational behavior, and draws the
relevant implications of such models for the design of
legal rules and institutions. The book contains contributions
by twenty-seven scholars active in the area of law and
economics, including essays by George Mason faculty: F.H.
Buckley, Terrence Chorvat, Kevin McCabe, Michael E. O'Neill
and Vernon Smith.
Bargaining
and Market Behavior: Essays in Experimental Economics
By Vernon L. Smith
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Hardcover: 474 pages
ISBN: 0521584507
For more information, see Cambridge
University Press.
This second collection of papers by Vernon L. Smith, a
creator of the field of experimental economics and a recipient
of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics, includes many of his
primary authored and coauthored contributions on bargaining
and market behavior between 1990 and 1998. The essays explore
the use of laboratory experiments to test propositions derived
from economics and game theory. They also investigate the
relationship between experimental economics and psychology,
particularly the field of evolutionary psychology, using
the latter to broaden the perspective in which experimental
results are interpreted. Specific themes investigated include
rational choice, the notion of fairness, game theory and
extensive form experimental interactions, institutions and
market behavior, and the study of laboratory stock markets.
Maxwell L. Stearns
Constitutional
Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision
Making
By Maxwell L. Stearns
University of Michigan Press; Reprint edition, 2002
ISBN: 0472111302 Cloth; Paper 0472088688
For more information, see the University
of Michigan Press.
This is the first comprehensive analysis of how the collective
nature of Supreme Court decision making affects the transformation
of the justices' preferences into constitutional doctrine.
Analyzing the Supreme Court from the perspective of social
choice theory, Maxwell L. Stearns offers new insights into
Supreme Court decision making that have profound implications
for understanding the outcomes in a number of cases and
the resulting doctrinal development within constitutional
law which traditional analyses have proven ill-equipped
to explain.
This book will appeal to scholars of the Supreme Court
or judicial decision-making. It should also be of interest
to students of social choice and of law and economics who
have not previously considered the Supreme Court or constitutional
law as fertile ground for their disciplines.
Gordon Tullock
Public Goods, Redistribution And Rent Seeking
By Gordon Tullock
Edward Elgar, 2005
Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN: 184376637X
Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of
the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating
look at how governments and externalities are linked.
Economists frequently justify government as dealing with
externalities, defined as benefits or costs that are generated
as the result of an economic activity, but that do not
accrue directly to those involved in the activity. In this
original work, Gordon Tullock posits that government can
also create externalities. In doing so, he looks at governmental
activity that internalizes such externalities.
Government
Failure: A Primer in Public Choice
By Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, Gordon L. Brady
Cato Institute, 2002
Paperback: 185 pages
ISBN: 1930865201
For more information, see Cato
Institute Publications.
When market forces fail us, what are we to do? Who will
step in to protect the public interest? The government,
right? Wrong. The romantic view of bureaucrats coming to
the rescue confuses the true relationship between economics
and politics. Politicians often cite "market failure"
as justification for meddling with the economy, but three
leading scholars show the shortcomings of this view. In
Government Failure, these scholars explain the school of
study known as "public choice," which uses economic
analysis to understand and evaluate government programs.
last updated:
May 17, 2005
