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The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective

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The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective
The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective
By Avinash K. Dixit
The MIT Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/4391.001.0001
ISBN electronic: 9780262271790
Publication date: 1996
The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of economic policy.

Avinash Dixit looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. Such costs of planning, implementing, and monitoring an exchange have proved critical to explaining many phenomena in industrial organization. Dixit discusses the variety of similar transaction costs encountered in the political process of making economic policy and how these costs affect the operation of different institutions and policies.

Dixit organizes a burgeoning body of research in political economy in this framework. He uses U.S. fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework, and show how policy often deviates from the economist's ideal of efficiency. The approach reveals, however, that some seemingly inefficient practices are quite creditable attempts to cope with transaction costs such as opportunism and asymmetric information.

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Economic policy.;Transaction c : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,., 1996

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9780262271790

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Avinash K. Dixit

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