TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leighton, Wayne A.
AU  - López, Edward J 
TI  - Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers:  the economic engine of political change
SN  - 9780804793391
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford 
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Political entrepreneurship
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ideas and the rules of politics -- The never-ending quest for good government -- Economists join the battle of political ideas -- Public choice : how we get bad policies and get stuck with them, or not -- How ideas matter for political change -- Four stories of political change -- What is to be done? : assembling the wisdom
N2  - This book introduces readers to the economics of politics-particularly political change-showing how incentives matter as much in politics as they do in the rest of our lives, and illustrating how ideas ultimately determine our motivations and the outcomes that they produce
ER  -