The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Econo... - 9781405124539

The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political EconomyReflections on the VPI Center\nAuthor(s): Joseph C. Pitt, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Douglas W. Eckel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405124539, 978-1405124539\nSynopsis\nThis book is about is more than a subdiscipline within the field of economics---it is about a new field named \""public choice political economy\"" that gradually evolved during the 1970s and 1980s at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. What is the field Public Choice Political Economy all about? How did it originate? Who were the main architects and builders? What values and work habits motivated the work? Finally, how did the facts about the development of public choice political economy stack up against what we know about science in general and how it has developed? The authors of the essays included in this volume, originally came together in May of 2000 in.