Beyond conventional economics : the limits of rational behaviour in political decision making / edited by Giuseppe Eusepi, Alan Hamlin. - xv, 154 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Papers originally presented at the conference "Beyond conventional economics. Studies in the intellectual development of Geoffrey Brennan" held September 2004, Ministry of the Economy and Finance, Rome, Italy, organized by the European Center for the Study of Public Choice (ECSPC).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Political dispositions and dispositional politics / Expressive voting : how special interests enlist their victims as political allies / Who shall keep the keepers themselves? : on the moral foundations of the separation of powers / A bouquet of democracies / Subjective evaluation of alternatives in individual voting choice / Truth, justice and democracy / Error-dependent norms / The world is a table : economic philosophy stated flatly in terms of rows, columns and tables / Alan Hamlin -- J. R. Clark and Dwight R. Lee -- Giuseppe Eusepi -- Gordon Tullock -- James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon -- Robert E. Goodin -- Philip Pettit -- Hartmut Kliemt. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding individual behaviour under limited rationality. This is a unique book documenting a meaningful debate on the limits of rational behaviour inside public choice circles and will appeal to a wide audience of economists, political scientists and public choice scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

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