States and Markets: A Primer in Political Economy

by Adam Przeworski

Book Overview

Political economy is the study of decentralized and centralized mechanisms for allocating resources and distributing incomes: markets and states. Both markets and states can be organized and combined in a variety of ways and they jointly determine what the economy produces as well as who gets what. The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the concepts and tools for studying relations between states and markets. The focus is methodological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521535247
• ISBN13: 9780521535243
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"