The making of economic policy : a transaction-cost politics perspective
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The making of economic policy : a transaction-cost politics perspective
（Munich lectures in economics / edited by Hans-Werner Sinn）
MIT Press, 1998
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"First MIT Press paperback edition, 1998" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and indexes
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Description
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 of planning, implementing, and monitoring an exchange have proved critical to explaining many phenomena in industrial organization. Dixit discusses the variety of similar transaction costs encountered in the political process of making economic policy and how these costs affect the operation of different institutions and policies.
Dixit organizes a burgeoning body of research in political economy in this framework. He uses U.S. fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework, and show how policy often deviates from the economist's ideal of efficiency. The approach reveals, however, that some seemingly inefficient practices are quite creditable attempts to cope with transaction costs such as opportunism and asymmetric information.
Copublished with the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute
Table of Contents
- Economic policymaking as a political process: the normative approach to policy analysis
- the positive view of political economy
- a synthesis: the policy process in "real time"
- a theme: transaction costs. The transaction-cost politics framework: political outcomes and economic efficiency
- transaction-cost analysis in politics
- mechanisms to cope with transaction costs in politics
- national differences. Two case studies to illustrate transaction-cost politics: tax and expenditure reform in the United States
- the GATT and national trade politics. Some reflections and suggestions: some lessons for the policy process
- the role of the economist
- concluding comments. Appendix: multiprincipal, multitask agencies.
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