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Constitutional economics is a research program in economics and constitutionalism that has been described as explaining the choice "of alternative sets of legal-institutional-constitutional rules that constrain the choices and activities of economic and political agents".

7360 Results for the subject "Constitutional Economics":

Constitutional economics of Ghana’s decentralization

Highlights•Challenges of decentralization are due to ill-conceived constitutional rules.•Ghana’s constitutional rules evince state control of, and dominance over, local governance processes.•A military regime cannot but introduce command-and-control in the constitutional rules of decentralization.•Enforcing command-and-control, decentralization rules in a liberal democracy is oxymoron at best and inane at worst.

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah Publication date: 2018/10/01
Explaining constitutional garrulity

AbstractConstitutions differ dramatically in length although they serve very similar functions everywhere. This paper tries to identify some determinants of constitutional length. It contains a new dataset spelling out the length of 135 constitutions in words. It turns out that a common law legal origin significantly increases the length of the constitution, whereas countries in the Middle East and North Africa have significantly shorter constitutions. Further, having been a British or Spanish colony is correlated with longer constitutions, a higher share of Protestants with shorter constitutions.

Stefan Voigt Publication date: 2009/12/01
Interjurisdictional competition and the allocation of constitutional rights: A research note

AbstractThe advantages or disadvantages of interjurisdictional competition are a hotly discussed topic in institutional economics. While the academic discussion is often concerned with the properties of an institutional meta-frame to avoid a “race to the bottom” of taxes and regulatory standards, in this commentary a closer look is given to the “inner” constitution of jurisdictions that face interjurisdictional competition. With the help of club-theory and the new property rights theory of the firm it is argued that residual constitutional rights should be allocated to immobile individuals. An allocation of constitutional rights that makes a difference between mobile and immobile individuals helps to avoid certain problems of interjurisdictional competition that have yet to be solved from the perspective of an institutional meta-framework. Some new ideas on the deregulation of politics fit into the proposed logic.

Klaus Heine Publication date: 2006/03/01
A constitutional theory of public goods

AbstractThe conventional justification for public provision is market failure. This paper argues instead that the rationale for public provision of goods is the existence of utility interdependencies across demanders: individuals choose what goods are public at the constitutional level based on degrees of utility interdependence in consumption. The paper first develops an analytical argument for shifting from non-excludability and joint consumption to utility interdependence in the analysis of public goods. It then presents a model of the constitutional calculus concerning modes of goods provision, and applies the model to simple choice scenarios. Broad policy implications of the model are drawn. In particular, a constitutional theory of public goods asserts the need for careful institutional design and definition of public powers more strongly than the market failure view.

Elisabetta Marmolo Publication date: 1999/01/01
The meaning of non-profit mission breadth: A constitutional economics perspective

AbstractGiven the non-profit management imperative of formulating optimally broad mission statements, this paper explores the meaning and the determinants of non-profit mission breadth. By adopting a constitutional economics perspective, the paper argues that mission breadth is ultimately determined by the trade-off between costs of collective decision-making in non-profit organizations and transaction costs of creating and maintaining these organizations. Developing optimally broad missions is shown to result in minimizing the sum of these costs, thus leading to an expansion of the non-profit sector and to an improvement of its problem-solving potential.

Vladislav Valentinov Publication date: 2011/01/01
Acute myeloid leukemia in a patient with constitutional 47,XXY karyotype

Highlights•Constitutional 47,XXY is associated with increased risk for certain malignancies.•There is no established association between 47,XXY (Klinefelter syndrome) and AML.•We here report a case of AML in a patient with constitutional 47,XXY.•A literature survey suggests that constitutional 47,XXY and AML occur uncommonly.•Literature review suggests 47,XXY and AML are more often seen in younger patients.

Marla M. Jalbut Publication date: 2015/01/01
The Role of the Romanian Constitutional Court in Protecting and Promoting Human Fundamental Rights and Freedoms

AbstractIn this study, the Romanian Constitutional Court is given a new perspective, namely that of the instrument of civic education. Taken into consideration that, according to the charter and activity of the Constitutional Court of Romania - as institutionalized form of constitutional justice – it presents all theoretical and practical guarantees to be considered a legal means to protect human fundamental rights and freedoms, to be really effective and efficient and to be perceived as such by the “beneficiaries”, respectively the subjects (natural or legal entities).The following aspects are analyzed and presented: the importance of the concept of “human rights” as democratic value; constitutional justice as a means of protecting human rights; how the Constitutional Court of Romania promotes human fundamental rights and freedoms through its activity, thus contributing to the awareness of the individual/citizen that he/she has fundamental rights and freedoms and thus shapin Read more...

Daniela Cristina Valea Publication date: 2012/01/01
Constitutional rules, reputation, and sovereign debt

AbstractThe inability of governments to pre-commit to certian policies often results in Pareto-inefficient equilibria. A policy is not time-consistent if it requires a course of action that will subsequently become undesirable. This paper examines the possibility of creating constitutional rules which can support sovereign debt contracts which would otherwise violate the requirement of time-consistency. The possibility of establishing international reputation with internal enforcement mechanisms is sensitive to the constitutional environment, which will also determine the appropriate form of the constitutional rules.

Dane Rowlands Publication date: 1993/11/01
Constitutional Recognition of Right to Healthy Environment: The way Forward☆

AbstractHealthy environment is vital to human life as it allows a person to grow physically, mentally and intellectually healthy. Hence, it is vital that a healthy environment attained constitutional recognition as part of the fundamental right. Therefore, it is essential for a state to adopt an active and dynamic jurisprudence and constitutional framework into its legal system. The success and progressive move of the Indian jurisdiction are an example. The strong constitutional framework available in the Indian jurisdiction allows their apex court to develop creatively jurisprudence on a healthy environment as part of constitutional rights. Consequently, the Indian jurisdiction is the source of reference towards such move.

Normawati Binti Hashim Publication date: 2013/12/03
Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy

AbstractLagged implementation may be an important element in a strategy of constitutional current bias stemming from sensory perception may be reduced. Choice among lagged constitutional alternatives may allow for a more ‘reflective’ personal evaluation.

James M. Buchanan Publication date: 1994/05/01
A constitutional choice approach to electoral district boundary delineation

AbstractThe analysis of constitutional choice is applied to the selection of principles underlying the delineation of electoral district boundaries. It is argued that procedural fairness in constitutional choice demands equalization of electoral bias, because absolute minimization of such bias is not possible as a result of uncertainty. These objectives were shown to be equivalent; thus, it is suggested that bipartisan commissions charged with electoral district boundary delineation would be established during the constitutional choice process.

Fred M. Shelley Publication date: 1982/10/01
NEW-DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

Publisher SummaryThis chapter describes new democratic constitutional government. The representatives of the people of all circles met on February 20, 1940 to inaugurate the association for the promotion of constitutional government. It was pointed out that armed resistance to Japan is already being carried out. Democracy of the old type, practiced in other countries, is on its way out and has become reactionary. Under no circumstances should such a reactionary thing be accepted. The sort of constitutional government that the Chinese die-hards are talking about is the old type of bourgeois democracy found abroad. But while they talk about it, they do not really want even that; they are using such talk to deceive the people. The Chinese national bourgeoisie, on the other hand, does want this type of constitutional government and would like to establish a bourgeois dictatorship in China, but it can never succeed. As far as the constitutional governments the world has so far known are con Read more...

MAO TSE-TUNG Publication date: 1965/01/01
AnalysisA quest for the economics of sustainability and the sustainability of economics

AbstractThis paper briefly reviews key insights from natural resource and environmental economics, ecological economics and industrial ecology in an effort to identify the major contributions of these fields to the understanding and promotion of sustainable development. Each is based on overlapping worldviews, methods and tools. Their synthesis and extension–subsumed under the rubric of ‘Natural Economics’–is suggested as a new thrust in environmental research, offering valuable guides to policy making. An early illustration of the application of natural economics in New Zealand is presented.

Matthias Ruth Publication date: 2006/03/15
Contestable constitutions: Ambiguity, conflict, and change in East Central European dual executive systems

AbstractThis article investigates how ambiguous constitutional design affected president–cabinet relations and constitutional change in post-communist Poland and Hungary. Constitutional provisions related to the prerogatives of presidents and governments were frequently subject to political conflict during the 1990s. The power struggle in the two cases developed and consolidated along two distinct pathways. In Poland, failed attempts to modify the constitution initially stirred up and extended intra-executive conflicts. With the adoption of a new constitution in 1997 the struggle over power between president and council of ministers was finally settled. In Hungary constitutional court rulings were instrumental in the settlement of president–cabinet conflicts.

Jasper de Raadt Publication date: 2009/03/01
Economics for a Higher Education

AbstractThe author addresses what is versus what should be taught in economics at the tertiary level and the way economics is taught versus how it should be taught. He argues that we need to assist students in recognizing the shortcomings of simplistic analyses of old before students rightly dismiss them as irrelevant and then wrongly dismiss all of economics as extraneous to modern day life. We need to bring the innovations in the science of economics into our teaching of economics. Similarly, we need to move beyond the outdated chalk and talk lecture methods to the active learning techniques made available by experimental economics, games and simulations, and the internet

William E. Becker Publication date: 2004/01/01
Structured pluralism in ecological economics — A reply to Peter Söderbaum's commentary

AbstractPeter Söderbaum argues in his commentary, concerning my article on sustainability economics (Remig 2015), for more open and radical ecological economics. I agree with that statement. However, I reject Söderbaum's interpretation that my arguments foster mainstreamed ecological economics or dictatorship. In my critique of sustainability economics, I raised several issues that have remained unspecified and that potentially lead to unsustainable development patterns, once put into practice. Söderbaum does not reply to these conceptual challenges of sustainability economics. In this commentary, I argue that “structured pluralism” (Dow, 2004) is a constituent element of ecological economics. I welcome Peter Söderbaum's proposal for a discussion about the definition of economics and suggest to rely on Ronald Coase's proposal to define economics as a science that studies the working of the economic system. I conclude that sustainability economics in its current form is closer t Read more...

Moritz C. Remig Publication date: 2017/01/01
The Russian Constitutional Court and the Communist Party case: Watershed or whitewash?

AbstractConstitutional Courts stand at the interface between law and politics, as the newly formed Russian Constitutional Court exemplified during Russia's time of troubles between 1991 and 1993. One Constitutional Court case from that period had particular significance. The Russian court considered the constitutionality of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the Russian Communist Party (CP RSFSR). The seven month long hearing tested the court's stamina and resolve. Described before it began as ‘Russia's Nuremberg’, was the Communist Party case a turning point in Russia's relationship with her past, or was it a staged showpiece with no real impact? This paper explores the Russian Constitutional Court's longest case and its effects.

Jane Henderson Publication date: 2007/03/01
Making economics real—The Economics Internship

AbstractIn the context of higher education concerns surrounding economics enrolments in Australia and industry concern about the quality of graduates, an Economics Internship was developed as a final year elective course in an Australian business degree. This paper details qualitative and quantitative evidence supporting the positive impact of the Economics Internship in terms of students’ generic skills, career and vocational skills, self-efficacy and satisfaction. The Economics Internship makes economics ‘real’ for students through their exposure to a dynamic learning environment and, in light of the evidence, is a model which demands further consideration and investment within economics education.

Craig Cameron Publication date: 2013/05/01
Constitutional rights to education and their relationship to national policy and school enrolment

Highlights•We assess the status and evolution of education rights in the world's constitutions.•81% of constitutions protect primary education and 53% specify that it is free.•Fewer grant secondary (37%) and higher (35%) education or protect specific groups.•Constitutional protection at all levels has increased in recent decades.•Constitutional right to primary and secondary school is associated with higher enrolment.

Jody Heymann Publication date: 2014/11/01
Economics Imperialism and the New Development Economics as Kuhnian Paradigm Shift?

AbstractThis paper addresses the evolving relationship between economics and other social sciences. It sets the present intellectual scene as one in which economics imperialism is rampaging across other disciplines. The designs of economics upon development studies are examined in terms of the Kuhnian notion of paradigm shift. Thereby the conclusion is drawn of the potential prospect of open debate around the economy and development, not least outside economics itself. But there is danger of economics imperialism, in the form of the post-Washington Consensus, foreclosing the analytical agenda at the expense of approaches based on the political economy of capitalism.

Ben Fine Publication date: 2002/12/01
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