the public choice theory

基本解释

The writer thinks the social welfare theory and the public choice theory are its main theoretical foundation.
它的建立符合历史发展的潮流，理论基础笔者认为主要是社会福利学说和公共选择理论。
Why are empirical researches of the Public Choice theory absent in China, whereas theoretical introductions are prevalent?
为什么公共选择理论在中国只有大量的理论介绍，却缺乏真正的经验性研究呢？
The public choice theory, the economical responsibility theory and new public management theory guiding by outputs are the theoretical basis of educational expenditure performance assessment.
公共选择理论、受托经济责任理论和以产出为导向的新公共管理理论是对财政教育支出进行绩效评价的理论基础。

This result is so devastating that many public choice economists themselves, including the father of social choice theory Kenneth Arrow, refuse to acknowledge what it implies: The myriad paradoxes and infirmities infecting democracy prevent it from ever living up to expectations that it can be a stable and efficient means of guiding and improving society.
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But the alternative you put forward — namely, that government play a greater role in certain aspects of last-mile broadband infrastructure — raises profound concerns involving transactions costs (which are intertwined with public choice theory and the economic calculation problem).
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Public choice theory explains the incentives and behavior of the tens of thousands of government employees who work in the bowels of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Economics and Statistics Administration, and countless other agencies who generate and massage spreadsheets day in and day out.
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