Monthly Archives: August 2012

(European) Debt Mutualisation: Lessons from the USA

This post considers events in the history of the United Stated (USA) that involved the bailing out of state governments by the (newly created) federal government. This considerations are made because of their value as a template for  a reform … Continue reading

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The Logic of Collective Action

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but only now found the time. The following is a model of interest group lobbying as taken from “A Theory of Groups and Organizations”, the first chapter of “The Logic of Collective … Continue reading

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