TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alesina,Alberto
AU  - Spolaore,Enrico
TI  - The size of nations: / by: MIT Press
SN  - 0262511878 (hft)
AV  - JC364 .A39 2003
U1  - 320.1 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. 
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Politisk teori
KW  - sao
KW  - Nationalekonomi
KW  - teori, filosofi
KW  - Statsdoktriner
KW  - Nationsbegreppet
KW  - States, Size of
KW  - Politics
KW  - economic analysis
KW  - shbe
KW  - Statsvetenskap
KW  - Political science
KW  - Teori
KW  - Theory
KW  - Economics
KW  - პოლიტიკა
KW  - პოლიტიკის მეცნიერებები
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; Overlapping Jurisdictions and the State --; 3; Voting on Borders --; 4; Transfers --; 5; Leviathans and the Size of Nations --; 6; Openness, Economic Integration, and the Size of Nations --; 7; Conflict and the Size of Nations --; 8; War, Peace, and the Size of Nations --; 9; Federalism and Decentralization --; 10; Size and Economic Performance --; 11; The Size of Nations: A Historical Overview --; 12; The European Union --; 13; Conclusions
N2  - "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
ER  -