Written by professor of American economics, Randall G.
Holcombe in 1985, An Economic Analysis of Democracy gives students of economics
and politics a view of the relationship between American democracy and the
economy. Professor Holcombe uses different
theoretical models in order to analyze the current workings of a voter model
system influenced by special interests in order to come up with insights in to
forming an effective model for economic decision making based on majority rule.
The book is relatively recent enough to offer students a
foundation of fairly recent economic theories that have been influential in the
past several decades, as well as allowing for a student to reflect on how
Holcombe’s theory might be revised in order to reflect more contemporary views
and conditions. Most of all, this work would form a good grounding as to point
the student in a direction for generating new ideas as to the inner
connectivity of democratic principles and economic theory and policy making.
Including the index, the book is 270 pages and includes a
ten page bibliography that offers readers further reading into the theories
discussed in the book. At the time of
writing the book, Randall G. Holcombe had been teaching economics at Auburn University
for almost ten years, in addition to having been a faculty member at Texas
A&M University. He has been widely published in economic journals and has
written around five other books on American economics.
An Economic Analysis of Democracy is part of the Political
and Social Economy series out of Southern Illinois University Press. Other
books in the series include:
- · Economic Thought and Social Change by J. Ron Stanfield
- · Origins of Economic Thought and Justice by Joseph J. Spengler
- · The Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto by Daniel R. Fusfeld and Timothy Bates
- · Toward a Social Economy by Howard R. B. Owen
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