States and Markets: A Primer in Political Economy [Illustrated] 0521535247, 9780521535243

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1Decentralized allocation mechanisms
1.2 Centralized allocation mechanisms
1.3 Political-economic equilibria
1.4 Plan of the book
Section I: Decentralized mechanisms
2 Market miracles and market failures
2.1 Readings
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Walrasian market
2.4 Market failures
2.4.1 Increasing returns
2.4.2 Public goods
2.4.3 Externalities
2.4.4 Are transaction costs a source of market failure? 38
2.5 Conclusion
3 Incomplete markets, imperfect information
3.1 Readings
3.2 Introduction
3.3 Causes of market incompleteness
3.3.1 Futures markets
3.3.2 Risk markets
3.3.3 Public goods and externality markets
3.3.4 Markets for future labor
3.4 Consequences of missing markets
3.5 Conclusion and some implications
4 Principal-agent framework
4.1 Readings
4.2 Introduction
4.3 Preliminaries
4.3.1 General assumptions
4.3.2 Risk postures, utility functions, and risk allocation
4.3.3 Questions to be answered
4.4 Analysis
4.4.1 Imperfect, symmetric, verifiable information
4.4.2 Asymmetric information
4.5 Conclusion
Section II: Centralized mechanisms
5 The state
5.1 Readings
5.2 Introduction
5.3 Demand for coercion: Structures of interests and compliance
5.4 Forms of state
5.4.1 Objectives of rulers
5.4.2 Technologies of rent extraction
5.4.3 Technologies for replacing rulers
5.5 The structure of the state
5.5.1 Collective decision making
5.5.2 Delegation and implementation
6 Governments and private agents: Regulation
6.1 Readings
6.2 Introduction
6.3 A general model of regulation
6.4 Moral hazard of the principal
6.5 Endogenous regulation
6.6 Regulatory capture
6.7 Competing interests
6.8 Money and politics
6.9 Appendix: Optimal regulation under incomplete information
7 Politicians and bureaucrats: Oversight
7.1 Readings
7.2 Introduction
7.3 Generic problems of oversight
7.4 Political uses of public power
7.5 Checks and balances
7.5.1 Multipartisan control
7.5.2 Contramajoritarian control
7.6 Insulated bureaucracies
7.7 Conclusion: Politics and administration
8 Citizens and politicians: Representation
8.1 Readings
8.2 Introduction
8.3 A simple model of electoral accountability
8.4 Voters' control over politicians
8.5 Conclusion
Section III: The state and the economy
9 Government and economic growth
9.1 Readings
9.2 Mechanics of growth
9.3 Optimal growth
9.4 Government and economic growth
9.5 Politics of economic growth
9.6 Appendix: Some steps in the Barro (1990) model
10 Government and redistribution
10.I Readings
10.2 Introduction
10.3 Preferences for equality
10.4 Positive theories of redistribution
10.4.1 Models of party competition
10.4.2 Applications to redistribution
10.5 Democracy and efficiency
11 Government and insurance
11.1 Readings
11.2 Justifications of the welfare state
11.2.1 Solidarity
11.2.2 Insurance
11.2.3 Militarism
11.2.4 Efficiency
11.3 Risk pooling and the welfare state
11.4 Endogenous provision of compulsory insurance
12 Epilog
13 Additional references
Index

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