Introduction To Public Choice Theory

Part I of Essay
"Everybody's business is nobody's business." Russell Hardin, Collective Choice, 1982. The social phenomena discussed in this series of essays all center around the problem of individuals in groups faced with the choice of doing what is best for themselves or what is best f ....

Part II of Essay
.... immediately puzzled by this, since most universities already have a Political Science department. The problem is that until Public Choice Theory came along, universities did not teach the way politics actually functions but, instead, taught the way it should work ideally or the way they wished it would work. This practice of teaching what should be rather than what is is fairly common at universities and continues to this day at most universities in politics as well as other disciplines. Fortunately, if you look carefully, you can find some ....