From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5266 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, November 6 2020 Volume 14 : Number 5266 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Emergency Liquidation on Emergency Sleeping Bags ["#1 killer in a crisis"] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 03:55:28 -0500 From: "#1 killer in a crisis" Subject: Emergency Liquidation on Emergency Sleeping Bags Emergency Liquidation on Emergency Sleeping Bags http://eatt.guru/fqf6GCmnRIALJgOISRCxrncXNqp6WjosiDv2rtYRYyB5ahTH http://eatt.guru/dvHT6298iKfja_-xAWs2u1LfoDyK4XcxQ3SaTMArn7gF1DuL that a range of social choice mechanisms emerge unscathed given certain reasonable restrictions on the domain of admissible preference profiles. In particular, requiring that preferences are single-peaked on a single dimension ensures a Condorcet winner. Moreover, many of Riker's empirical claims have been refuted. Public choice theory Public choice theory (sometimes called "positive political theory") applies microeconomic methodology to the study of political science in order to explain how private interests inform political activities. Whereas welfare economics, in line with classical political economy, typically assumes a public-interest perspective on policymaking, public choice analysis adopts a private-interest perspective in order to identify how the objectives of policymakers affect policy outcomes. Public choice analysis thus diagnoses deviations from the common good resulting from activities such as rent-seeking. In The Logic of Collective Action, Mancur Olson argues that public goods will tend to be underprovided due to individuals' incentives to free-ride. Anthony Downs provided an application of this logic to the theory of voting, identifying the paradox of voting whereby rational individuals prefer to abstain from voting, because the marginal cost exceeds the private marginal benefit. Downs argues further that voters generally prefer to remain uninformed due to "rational ignorance." Public choice scholarship can have more constructive applications. For instance, Elinor Ostrom's study of schemes for the regulation of common property resources resulted in the discovery of mechanisms for overcoming the tragedy of the commons. In many countries of the Commonwealth, charitable organizations must demonstrate that they provide a public benefit ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5266 **********************************************