PUB5210 Public Choice: Rationality and Decision-Making: Home

Public choice is a sub-discipline of economics and political science that attempts to explain the public policy process via economic models. This course analyzes how the collective preferences are aggregated and shape the non-economic decision-making. It examines the classic works of public choice theory, dipping back into the works of Adam Smith and Marquis de Condorcet, and a number of 20th century scholars such as F.A. Hayek, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, and other theorists.

公共选择是经济学和政治学的一个分支学科，这个学科试图通过经济学模型来解释公共政策过程。本课程将分析集体偏好是如何聚集以及如何影响非经济决策的。课程将回顾公共选择理论的经典作品，包括亚当·斯密和孔多塞的作品，以及一些二十世纪的学者，如：哈耶克、詹姆斯·布坎南、戈登·图洛克和其他理论家的作品。