European and US contributors to this book look at global issues while also offering special emphasis on the Austrian perspective. Material is grouped in sections on theoretical foundations,
values, rational choices, optimal government and government failure, and public economics of public bads. Some specific topics include tax burden and unemployment, Marxian public economies, a
welfare-economics approach to minority rights, government failures in railway public policy, the origins and impact of the informal economy, and the role of memory in modeling social and
economic cycles of extreme events. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
