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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
[Электронный ресурс] : словарь / Editors Charles Rowley, Friedrich
Schneider. - [S. l.] : Springer Science & Business Media, 2008. -
1105 p. -
ISBN 0-7923-8607-8 : Б. ц.
Кл.слова (ненормированные):
Public Choice --
Economic --
Political Economy
Аннотация: The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and
comprehensive account of the subject known as public choice.
However, the title would not convey suf- ciently the breadth of the
Encyclopedia's contents which can be summarized better as the
fruitful interchange of economics, political science and moral
philosophy on the basis of an image of man as a purposive and
responsible actor who pursues his own objectives as efficiently as
possible. This fruitful interchange between the fields outlined
above existed during the late eighteenth century during the brief
period of the Scottish Enlightenment when such great scholars as
David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith contributed to all these
fields, and more. However, as intell- tual specialization gradually
replaced broad-based scholarship from the m- nineteenth century
onwards, it became increasingly rare to find a scholar making major
contributions to more than one. Once Alfred Marshall defined
economics in neoclassical terms, as a n- row positive discipline,
the link between economics, political science and moral philosophy
was all but severed and economists redefined their role into that
of 'the humble dentist' providing technical economic information as
inputs to improve the performance of impartial, benevolent and
omniscient governments in their attempts to promote the public
interest. This indeed was the dominant view within an economics
profession that had become besotted by the economics of John
Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson immediately following the end of
the Second World War.
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