#ECONOMICSFOREVERYBODY The economic approach to public governance Jean-François Laslier The very title of this edition of Eco Pour Tous indicates that politics, rather than the economy, will be the main subject, and it is by its very nature an invitation...
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#ECONOMICSFOREVERYBODY The economic approach to public governance Jean-François Laslier The very title of this edition of Eco Pour Tous indicates that politics, rather than the economy, will be the main subject, and it is by its very nature an invitation for us to question why economists take an interest in politics, how they do it, and what they can contribute to the academic discipline that is political science and open debate on political matters. It is worth remembering that these mathematical formalization – in academic subjects were part of the same discipline research on politics. It soon drew criticism until only recently. In French universities, due to a lack of empirical relevance of the they were two sections of law faculties that hypothesis of rationality. This is covered in were intertwined during the 20th century detail in Green and Shapiro’s Pathologies of and only separated as the academic world Rational Choice Theory2, published in 1994. increasingly began to be broken
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