Making Government Pay: Markets, Politics, and the Allocation of Constitutional Costs

Constitutional Economics/Constitutional Politics

Why does the treatment of American constitutional politics presented in We the People depart so radically from models of constitutional deliberation developed in the type of constitutional economics pioneered by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock? The paper defines three premises that account for the divergence, and concludes by proposing an inquiry into constitutional design that requires insig...

the effects of cognitive strategies- note making and underlining- on iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension

هدف از انجام این مطالعه ، بررسی اثرات استفاده از استراتژی های شناختی یعنی "نت برداری" و "زیر خط کردن" بر روی عملکرد درک مطلب زبان آموزان ایرانی می باشد. به این منظور، 60 زبان آموز دختر سال چهارم دبیرستان از طریق آزمون پیشرفت زبان انگلیسی (نلسون)، از یک جامعه آماری بزرگتر انتخاب شدند. سپس به صورت تصادفی به سه گروه که هر گروه شامل ?0 دانش آموز همسان بود، تقسیم شدند: دو گروه آزمایش(گروه "نت برداری...

Pay to Switch or Pay to Stay: Preference-Based Price Discrimination in Markets with Switching Costs

In many markets, Žrms can price discriminate between their own customers and their rivals’ customers, charging one price to consumers who prefer their own product and another price to consumers who prefer a rival’s product. We Žnd that when demand is symmetric, charging a lower price to a rival’s customers is always optimal. When demand is asymmetric, however, it may be more proŽtable to charge...

Politics and financial markets

The Impoundment Dilemma: Crisis in Constitutional Government