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Public Choice
Published in: Public Choice 3-4/2014

01-12-2014 | Book Review

Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Elgar companion to public choice, second edition

Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., Northampton, MA, 2013, xviii + 597 pp. USD 280.00 (cloth)

Author: Edward J. Lopez

Published in: Public Choice | Issue 3-4/2014

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Co-Editors Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini, and William Shughart have assembled a fine extension of the first Elgar Companion to Public Choice that was published in 2003 (Shughart and Razzolini 2003). Designed to be “a valuable resource for scholars, but also one to be evaluated critically as new developments in how societies are structured materialize,” (p. 11), the new volume is conscious of public choice evolving as a research program and as a set of tools for analyzing human events as they occur. …
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Title
Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Elgar companion to public choice, second edition
Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., Northampton, MA, 2013, xviii + 597 pp. USD 280.00 (cloth)
Author
Edward J. Lopez
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Choice / Issue 3-4/2014
Print ISSN: 0048-5829
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7101
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0196-9

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