Tullock Challenges: Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy
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- Bruno Frey, 2011. "Tullock challenges: happiness, revolutions, and democracy," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 148(3), pages 269-281, September.
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- Bruno S. Frey, 2011. "Tullock Challenges: happiness, revolutions and democracy," ECON - Working Papers 015, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
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Keywords
Happiness; social networks; constitutional economics; random mechanisms; public choice;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- P16 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Political Economy of Capitalism
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2011-04-30 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-HPE-2011-04-30 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-ICT-2011-04-30 (Information & Communication Technologies)
- NEP-LTV-2011-04-30 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
- NEP-PUB-2011-04-30 (Public Finance)
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