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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797147103321

Autore

Breton Albert

Titolo

The economic constitution of federal states / / Albert Breton, Anthony Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1978

©1978

ISBN

1-4426-5080-X

1-4426-3242-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

320/.2

Soggetti

Federal government

Intergovernmental fiscal relations

Economic policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Concepts -- Introduction and background -- Private activities -- Dimension of the public sector -- The orthodox economic approach -- Models of federalism -- Citizens and governments -- Constituent assemblies -- Least-cost models of federalism -- Representative government models -- Special topics -- The selection of topics -- The assignment of redistribution functions -- The assignment of stabilization functions -- The role of grants in the assignment process -- index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient.