Constitution for a Future Country

By: M. Bailey, N. Tideman (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour. It combines previously published ideas about charging people the costs of their political actions and selling insurance against unfavourable political outcomes, with new ideas about competing legislatures and incentives for generating efficient political outcomes. The book includes new theorems about the mechanisms that are discussed, as well as a proposed constitution and its rationale.

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List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
The Emerging Country	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Advantages and Disadvantages of Government	p. 2
The Comparative Efficiency of Governments	p. 3
The Inefficiency of Government Operations	p. 6
Interpreting Government Waste	p. 14
What Can Be Done?	p. 15
Outline of Chapters to Follow	p. 18
Are Governments Really Inefficient?	p. 19
Ways to Overcome the Public Goods Problem	p. 21
Introduction	p. 21
Constitutional vs. Contractual Redistribution to Destitute Families and Others	p. 28
Eliciting True Bids by a Second-Price Auction	p. 31
The Thompson Insurance Mechanism	p. 39
Representative Legislatures	p. 41
Delegation of Policy Analysis by the Sovereign People	p. 44
Competition in the Legislative and Executive Functions	p. 45
The Judiciary and Competition	p. 47
A Minimum of Monopoly	p. 49
Conclusion: Putting it All Together	p. 51
Notes on Altruism, Ideology, and Anarchy	p. 54
Altruism and Public-Spiritedness	p. 54
Public Goods	p. 56
Altruism, Public Goods, and Willingness to Pay	p. 57
The Herd Instinct	p. 58
The Draft Constitution and its Rationale	p. 64
Preamble	p. 64
Popular Sovereignty	p. 64
Legislatures, Legislative Programs, and their Execution	p. 65
Powers of the Government and Limitations Thereto	p. 99
Chief of State and Commander in Chief	p. 108
The Judiciary	p. 110
Ratification	p. 115
Technical Annex: Procedure for Adjusting Legislative Votes and Voters' Uninsured Harms	p. 120
The Draft Constitution	p. 122
Preamble	p. 122
Popular Sovereignty	p. 123
Legislatures, Legislative Programs, and their Execution	p. 123
Powers of the Government and Limitations Thereto	p. 138
Chief of State and Commander in Chief	p. 144
The Judiciary	p. 145
Ratification	p. 149
Technical Annex: Procedure for Adjusting Legislative Votes and Voters' Uninsured Harms	p. 152
Perspectives and Alternatives	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
Can it Happen?	p. 156
Is There a Better Way?	p. 158
Could it Be Subverted?	p. 162
Is it Overly Specific?	p. 167
The Payoff in More Concrete Terms	p. 170
The Perspective of the Voting Family	p. 173
Some Further Notes on Incentives	p. 177
Inconsistencies	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 181
The Thompson Insurance Mechanism	p. 182
Introduction	p. 182
Perspectives on Thompson's Insurance Mechanism	p. 183
Technical Analysis	p. 185
Adjustments for Income Effects	p. 189
Introduction	p. 189
The Primary Refund of VCG Taxes for Outcomes in a Continuous Range	p. 192
Reconciling Budget Balance with Bayesian Incentive Compatibility	p. 194
The Existence of Equilibrium for Continuous Public Goods	p. 195
Multiple Discrete Options	p. 196
Conclusion	p. 203
Formal Proofs	p. 204
Formal Development Of The VCG Mechanism	p. 204
The Primary Refund Of VCG Taxes	p. 214
Non-Separable Utility In A VCG Economy	p. 230
General Equilibrium In A VCG Economy	p. 246
Choices Over Multiple Discrete Options	p. 262
Why Nash Solutions are Not Solutions	p. 286
Introduction	p. 286
Alternative Mechanisms with Equivalent Results	p. 287
Conclusion	p. 290
Notes	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 307
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