Knowledge and Incentives in Policy (eBook)

Using Public Choice and Market Process Theory to Analyze Public Policy Issues

Stefanie Haeffele (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
302 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
9781786603999 (ISBN)

Infos

This book, authored by public policy practitioners and researchers, tackle such pressing issues as public education, the process for approving medical devices, tax policy, and land use regulation.

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The relative effectiveness of various institutions, such as the market or government, is based on the ability for individuals to access and use dispersed knowledge in society and the incentives that steer their actions. Market process theory emphasizes the effectiveness of the price system to consolidate and transmit knowledge in the marketplace.Together this framework provides new insights on the capability of individuals to cooperate and improve society, and the limits to government interventions in society. The original research in each chapter uses this economic way of thinking to analyze a variety of public policy issues, examining the incentives responsible for and the factors that contribute to the creation and effectiveness of the policies. These chapters, authored by public policy practitioners and researchers, tackle such pressing issues as public education, the process for approving medical devices, tax policy, and land use regulation.

Autor

lt;span>Stefanie Haeffele is the Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs and a senior fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Inhalt

Introduction, Stefanie Haeffele

Part I – International Policy

1. Can Governments Create Bureaucratic Structures That Overcome Knowledge and Incentive Problems? An Analysis of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Rosemarie Fike
2. The Political Economy of Intervention in the Conflict against ISIS, David Wille

Part II – Federal Policy

3. FDA Effectiveness Standards: Helpful or Harmful? Anna Rivers
4. Exit, Voice, and Incentives: An Institutional Analysis of Urban Public School Districts, Rachel Reese

Part III – State and Local Policy

5. Firm-Specific Tax Incentives: The Bad and the Ugly, Adam N. Michel
6. A Better Tomorrow: Policy Reform and the Limitations of State-Led Targeted Economic Development, Courtney Michaluk
7. The Political Economy of Casino Licensing: A Case Study on Maryland’s Experience, Candace McTeer Mottice
8. The Political Economy of D.C. School Choice: An Institutional Analysis of the Opportunity Scholarship Program, Allison Kasic
9. Stifling Urban Development with Land-Use Regulation: A Case Study of Redevelopment in Tysons Corner, Virginia, Emily Hamilton

About the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Economy, Polity, and Society
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: conflict • Economics • Governments • Incentives • market process • Political Economy • Public Choice Theory • Public Education • Public Policy • Regulation • Society
• ISBN-13: 9781786603999 / 9781786603999