The Economic Constitution of Federal States / / Albert Breton, Anthony Scott.
A study of ";economic imperialism"; based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Part One. Concepts
- 1. Introduction and background
- 2. Private activities, public policies, and jurisdictional functions
- 3. Structural dimensions of the public sector
- 4. The orthodox economic approach to federalism
- Part Two. Models of Federalism
- 5. Citizens and governments
- 6. Constituent assemblies
- 7. Least-cost models of federalism
- 8. Representative government models of federalism
- Part Three. Special Topics
- 9. The selection of topics
- 10. The assignment of redistribution functions
- 11. Special problems in the assignment of stabilization functions
- 12. The role of grants in the assignment process
- Index