The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective

by Avinash K. Dixit

Book Overview

The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of economic policy.

Avinash Dixit looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. Such costs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262540983
• ISBN13: 9780262540988
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher