The book contains essays in honor of Charles B. Blankart on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The contributors include prominent scholars from the discipline of public finance and public choice. The essays include topics like taxation, public choice, and regulation, and thus give testimony of Blankart's very broad ranging interests in economics.
Rights and wrongs by Dennis C. Mueller 1
2 Public choice and new institutional economics : a comparative analysis in search of co-operation potentials by Christian Kirchner 19
3 The Machiavelli program and the dirty hands problem by Manfred J. Holler 39
4 Esteem, norms of participation and public goods supply by Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks 63
5 Fairness, rights, and language rights : on the fair treatment of linguistic minorities by Bengt-Arne Wickstrom 81
6 Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth by Lars P. Feld and Horst Zimmermann and Thomas Doring 103
7 Government bankruptcy and inflation by Peter Bernholz 135
8 Political support for tax complexity : a simple model by Pio Baake and Rainald Borck 147
9 Does the shadow economy pose a challenge to economic and public finance policy? - some preliminary findings by Friedrich Schneider 157
10 The rankings and evaluations mania by Bruno S. Frey 181
11 University education as welfare? by Roland Vaubel 193
12 The economics of environmental liability law - a dynamic view by Alfred Endres and Regina Bertram and Bianca Rundshagen 201
13 On the efficiency of a public insurance monopoly : the case of housing insurance in Switzerland by Gebhard Kirchgassner 221
14 A note on David Hansemann as a precursor of Chadwick and Demsetz by Bernhard Wieland 243
15 'Stepping stones' and 'access holidays' : the fallacies of regulatory micro-management by Gunter Knieps and Patrick Zenhausern