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page 1 Donald P. Racheter and Richard E. Wagner PART ONE: WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENT BE LIMITED? 2. The Purpose and Limits of Government page 13 Roger Pilon 3. Constitutionally-limited Government Versus Popular Democracy page 38 William C. Mitchell 4. Government: An Expensive Provider page 56 William S. Peirce PART TWO: WHICH LIMITS ON GOVERNMENT ARE APPROPRIATE? 5. Constitutional Limits Versus Statutory Rules page 77 Randy T. Simmons 6. Constitutional Spending Limitations and the Optimal Size of Government page 96 Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway 7. Tax Limits page 115 Randall G. Holcombe 8. Regulatory Limits page 140 Eugenia F. Toma 9. The Case for Congressional Term Limits is the Same as the Case for Pollution Control page 161 Dwight R. Lee 10. Electoral Limits page 176 Gary M. Anderson PART THREE: ARE AUXILIARY PRECAUTIONS NEEDED? 11. Federalist Theory and Polycentricity: Learning from Local Governments page 203 Robert L. Bish 12. Searching for Order: The Costly Interaction of Formal and Informal Systems page 221 Bruce Yandle 13. Technological and Economic Limitations on Governments page 238 Richard B. McKenzie Index 257 List of Figures and Tables Figures 3.1 Constitutions and Pareto Improvements page 53 6.1 State and Local Spending as a % of GDP, 1946—93 page 101 6.2 The Armey Curve: Government Spending and National Output page 103 Tables 6.1 Growth in American Government, 1902—93 page 100 6.2 Statistical Estimation of the Armey Curve page 111 6.3 The Optimal and Actual Size of Government page 112 Contributors Donald P. Racheter is Executive Director of Public Interest Institute and Professor of Political Science at Central College, Pella, Iowa. Richard E. Wagner is Chairman of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Professor of Economics, Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Roger Pilon is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. William C. Mitchell is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. William S. Peirce is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Randy T. Simmons is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Professor of Political Science at Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Richard K. Vedder is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Lowell E. Gallaway is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Eugenia F. Toma is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Professor of Economics and Director of the Martin School of Public Administration at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Dwight R. Lee is Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Gary M. Anderson is Professor of Economics at California State University, Northridge, California. Robert L. Bish is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Director of the Local Government Institute and Professor of Public Administration and Economics, School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Bruce Yandle is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics and Legal Studies at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. Richard B. McKenzie is a member of Public Interest Institute’s Academic Advisory Board and Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society, Graduate School of Management at University of California, Irvine, California.
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