Alesina, Alberto
The size of nations / / by: MIT Press Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2003 - x, 261 p. ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Overlapping Jurisdictions and the State -- Voting on Borders -- Transfers -- Leviathans and the Size of Nations -- Openness, Economic Integration, and the Size of Nations -- Conflict and the Size of Nations -- War, Peace, and the Size of Nations -- Federalism and Decentralization -- Size and Economic Performance -- The Size of Nations: A Historical Overview -- The European Union -- Conclusions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
"The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country's borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other manmade institution. In The Size of Nations they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way."--BOOK JACKET.
0262511878 (hft) 0262012049 (hc. : alk. paper)
2003051201
Politisk teori
Nationalekonomi--teori, filosofi
Statsdoktriner
Nationsbegreppet
States, Size of.
Politics--economic analysis
Statsvetenskap
Political science
Teori
Theory
Nationalekonomi
Economics
პოლიტიკა პოლიტიკის მეცნიერებები
JC364 / .A39 2003
320.1
32 / A-32
The size of nations / / by: MIT Press Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2003 - x, 261 p. ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Overlapping Jurisdictions and the State -- Voting on Borders -- Transfers -- Leviathans and the Size of Nations -- Openness, Economic Integration, and the Size of Nations -- Conflict and the Size of Nations -- War, Peace, and the Size of Nations -- Federalism and Decentralization -- Size and Economic Performance -- The Size of Nations: A Historical Overview -- The European Union -- Conclusions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
"The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country's borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other manmade institution. In The Size of Nations they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way."--BOOK JACKET.
0262511878 (hft) 0262012049 (hc. : alk. paper)
2003051201
Politisk teori
Nationalekonomi--teori, filosofi
Statsdoktriner
Nationsbegreppet
States, Size of.
Politics--economic analysis
Statsvetenskap
Political science
Teori
Theory
Nationalekonomi
Economics
პოლიტიკა პოლიტიკის მეცნიერებები
JC364 / .A39 2003
320.1
32 / A-32