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Political Economics
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Zeuthen Lecture Book Series
Karl Gunnar Persson, editor
Modeling Bounded Rationality
Ariel Rubinstein
Forecasting Non-stationary Economic Time Series
Michael P. Clements and David F. Hendry
Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy
Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
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Political Economics
Explaining Economic Policy
Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
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c 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means
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publisher.
This book was set in Times Roman by position Corporation.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Persson, Torsten.
Political economics : explaining economic policy / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini.
p. cm. —(Zeuthen lecture book series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-16195-8 (hc)
1. Economic policy. I. Tabellini, Guido Enrico, 1956– II. Title. III. Series.
2000 00-028245
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To Christina, Johanna, Jenny, and Julia
To Giovanna, Marco, and Anna
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Contents
Series Foreword xiii
Foreword xv
Preface xvii
1 General Introduction 1
Economic Policy 6
Politics 10
Concluding Remarks 14
I TOOLS OF POLITICAL ECONOMICS 15
2 Preferences and Institutions 19
A General Policy Problem 19
Restricting Preferences 21
Restricting Institutions 28
Discussion 40
Notes