Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger)

Applies public-choice logic to political incentives, skepticism, and limits on government power.

Public choice & government failurePublic choicePodcast episodeintermediatebureaucracyconstitutional political economygovernment failuremedian voter theorempolitical incentivespublic choiceRuss RobertsMike Munger

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