Political Failure by Agreement: Learning Liberalism and the Welfare State

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 janv. 2008 - 150 pages
Gerhard Wegner provides new insight into the relation between democracies and market economies. He recognizes conflict between the two, but he doesn t propose constitutional controls over political action. Such proposals are grounded in the comparative st
 

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1 Preferences for the welfare state as a challenge for economic liberalism
1
the evolutionary view
25
a conception of feasible democratic politics
52
4 The underestimation of political opportunity costs
77
reviewing economic liberalism
103
References
128
Index
135
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Gerhard Wegner, Professor of Economics, Erfurt University, Germany

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