Paul Aligica, Peter Boettke and Vlad Tarko take us on an illuminating theoretical and empirical journey in the study of public governance more generally. They explore the multiple layers of both the economic and political institutional framework that can make a society work well and the social choice processes that are available to meet the challenges of polycentric governance and equity. They combine a fresh analytical and historical perspective on understanding the
meaning and limits of self-governance and the experience of collective coordination and administration through a careful analysis of themes, issues areas and cases that go beyond the American case. In so doing, they offer a compelling and original account of the evolving relations between classical
liberalism and modernity, equity and governance, and democratic versus bureaucratic administration
Paul Dragos Aligica is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Professor of Administrative Sciences at the University of Bucharest.
Peter J. Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.
Vlad Tarko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at University of Arizona.