Economic freedom, constitutional structure, and growth in developing countries

Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries: Applications of the Theory of Public Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 33-59

  Gwartney, James D ^a   Holcombe, Randall G ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85082283104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429441523-3     Document Type: Chapter

References (48)

1. Alchian, A. A. (1950), ‘Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory’, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 58, pp. 211-21.
2. Anderson, T. L. and Hill, P. J. (1980), The Birth of a Transfer Society, Hoover Institution Press: Stanford.
3. Brennan, G. and Buchanan, J. M. (1980), The Power to Tax, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
4. Browning, E. K. (1976), ‘The Marginal Cost of Public Funds’, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 283-98.
5. Buchanan, James M. (1975), The Limits of Liberty, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
6. Buchanan, J. M. and Tullock, G. (1962), The Calculus of Consent. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor.
7. de Haan, J. and Siermann, C. L. J. (1996), ‘New Evidence on the Relationship Between Democracy and Economic Growth’, Public Choice, Vol. 86, Nos. 1-2, pp. 175-98.
8. de Soto, H. (1989), The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World, Harper & Row: New York.
9. Epstein, R. A. (1985), Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
10. Friedman, M. (1962), Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
11. Gastil, R.D. (1987), Freedom in the World, Greenwood: Westport, CT.
12. Gwartney, J. D., Lawson R. and Block, W. (1996), Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995. Fraser Institute: Vancouver.
13. Hall, R. E. and Rabushka A. (1985), The Flat Tax, Hoover Institution Press: Stanford.
14. Hayek, F. (1944), The Road to Serfdom, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
15. Hayek, F. (1945), ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’, American Economic Review, Vol. 35 (September), pp. 519-30.
16. Higgs, R. (1987), Crisis and Leviathan, Oxford University Press: New York.
17. Holcombe, R.G. (1985), An Economic Analysis of Democracy. Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, IL.
18. Holcombe, R. G. (1992), ‘The Distributive Model of Government: Evidence from the Confederate Constitution’, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 762-69.
19. Holcombe, R. G. (1995), Public Policy and the Quality of Life, Greenwood Press: Westport, CT.
20. Holcombe, R. G. (1996), Public Finance: Government Revenues and Expenditures in the United States Economy, West Publishing Company: Minneapolis/St. Paul.
21. Kirzner, I. M. (1973), Competition and Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago: Chicago.
22. Knack, S. (1996), ‘Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence’, Public Choice, Vol. 87, Nos. 3-4, pp. 207-28.
23. Krueger, A. O. (1974), ‘The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society’, American Economic Review, Vol. 64 (June), pp. 291-303.
24. Krueger, A. O. (1993), Political Economy of Policy Reform in Developing Countries, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
25. Lange, O. and Taylor, F. M. (1938), On the Economic Theory of Socialism, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis.
26. Lemer, A. (1944), The Economics of Control: Principles of Welfare Economics, Macmillan: New York.
27. Lingle, C. (1996), Singapore1s Authoritarian Capitalism: Asian Values, Free Market Illusions, and Political Dependency, Locke Institute: Fairfax, VA.
28. Mirrlees, J. A. (1976), ‘Optimal Tax Theory-A Synthesis’, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 6 (November), pp. 327-58.
29. Mises, L. von (1947), Planned Chaos, Foundation for Economic Education: Irvingon-Hudson, New York.
30. Mises, L. von. (1951), Socialism, Yale University Press: New Haven, CT.
31. Myrdal, G. (1957), Economic Theory and Under-Developed Regions, Duckworth: London.
32. North, D. C. and Thomas, R. P. (1973), The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
33. Olson, M., Jr. (1996), ‘Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others Poor’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 3-24.
34. Posner, R. A. (1971), ‘Taxation by Regulation’, Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, Vol. 2 (Spring), pp. 22-50.
35. Rawls, J. (1971), A Theory of Justice, Belknap: Cambridge, MA.
36. Ricardo, D. (1912 [orig. 1821]), The Principles of Political Economy, 3rd ed., J.M. Dent: London.
37. Samuelson, P. A. (1973), Economics, 9th ed. McGraw-Hill: New York.
38. Scully, G. W. (1988), ‘The Institutional Framework and Economic Development’, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 96, No. 3, pp. 652-62.
39. Scully, G. W. (1992), Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth, Princeton University Press: Princeton.
40. Smith, A. (1937 [1776]), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Modem Library: New York.
41. Solow, R. M. (1957), ‘Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function’, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 39, pp. 214-31.
42. Stiglitz, J. E. (1994), Whither Socialism?, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press: Cambridge.
43. Tullock, G. (1967), ‘The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft’, Western Economic Journal, Vol. 5 (June), pp. 224-32.
44. Tullock, G. (1975), ‘The Transitional Gains Trap’, Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 6 (Autumn), pp. 671-78.
45. Usher, D. (1992), The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation, University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor.
46. Vibert, F. (1995), Europe: A Constitution for the Millennium, Dartmouth: Aldershot, UK.
47. Wicksell, K. (1967), ‘A New Principle of Just Taxation,’ (originally published 1896), in Musgrave, R. A. and Peacock, A. T. (eds.), Classics in the Theory of Public Finance, St. Martin’s Press: New York, pp. 72-118.
48. Williamson, O. E. (1990), ‘A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Economic Methodology’, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 146, No. 1, pp. 61-71.