Robert D. Tollison Knihy

Maximizing happiness means more than maximizing wealth, and yet many students assume economists only care about "the bottom line." "Economics: Private Markets and Public Choice "emphasizes that economics is, at its base, about our society's well-being and our individual happiness in "all "forms, not just profit. The authors teach students to apply economic concepts not only to key policy decisions like taxes, inflation, and free trade, but also to personal decisions such as household finance, marriage, and career choices.The Seventh Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools. Access to MyEconLab comes with every new textbook at no additional cost to the student.

This volume of thirty-one essays forms the foundation of 1986 Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan's work on the constitutional economics paradigm he founded. These essays include many that appeared in journals not easily accessible as well as some which have not previously been published. The essays collected here were written over a thirty-year period, and place the full scope of Buchanan's work in a convenient setting for study.