At 03:54 PM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
The Virginia school is not the beginning and end
of public choice theory. For instance, there is
a median voter theory that explains how, under
completely fantastical conditions, the median
voter is decisive in electoral matters
in the Krugman column
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I used a median voter model for my dissertation.
The R-squares were beyond belief. I was more
worried about them being too good than the
contrary.
Do tell Max. What was your
cess.
mbs
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Subject: [PEN-L:16212] Re: RE: executive committee
At 03:54 PM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
The Virginia school is not the beginni
Doesn't the Virginia school merge into the literature on rent seeking --
although
the typical nasty rent seekers are labor unions and lawyers and the like?
yes.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Yeah, all the AMs are lefty pub choicers. See also Pzrzworski on social democracy. I
am having been developing a version of the argument that Marx's state theory is a pub
choice view for a paper I am working on about Marx and the rule of law, although
admittedly my motive is partly to annoy
Max writes: If you think the state is the executive committee of the
bourgeoisie, than you are a public choice theorist too.
Brad sighs:
Marx did not write in the _Manifesto_ that the state is the executive
committee of the bourgeoisie.
He wrote that the executive of the modern state is a
if the working class is well organized and class conscious (as in
Chile in 1970), not only may the legislature but the executive may be
subordinated to non-bourgeois forces.
The problem, of course, is that in the Chilean case, the repressive
component of the state (the armed forces)
And don't omit the $8 million that the U.S. spent--in part, thru the CIA, for the
trucker's strike and other mischief. Remember Kissinger's comment that if the
Chilean people were so "irresponsible" as to choose a socialist government in a
free election, appropriate measures would have to be
