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Market Failures and Multi-layered Collective Action. US Economic Debates

Published:2023-05 Issue:1 Volume: Page:69-89
ISSN:2240-9971
Container-title:HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY
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Author:

Masini Fabio,Nania Albertina

Abstract

The paper reconstructs the debates in the USA about economic theorizing and policymaking advisory concerning a multi-layered system of governments. Beyond apparent similarities, it highlights the ontological divides between Ostrom-Tiebout- Warren on polycentric governance and Buchanan on competitive federalism on the one side, and Musgrave's and Olson's fiscal federalism. It further underlines how such divides - concerning the relative role of individuals, markets, collective author- ities, and social order - echoed similar debates in Europe related to a multi-layered economic system, again depending mostly on different ontological assumptions.

Publisher

Franco Angeli

Subject

Public Administration,Economics and Econometrics,History

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