Emergence, Entanglement, and Political Economy 3030560872, 9783030560874

Table of contents :
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Emergence and Entanglement in a Theory of Political Economy
1 A Societal Topography: Action Level and Systems Level
2 Entanglement in a Theory of Political Economy
3 Public Law and Public Economy
4 Parasitical Politics and Economic Calculation
5 Working with Political Profit as a Concept
6 From Wicksell to Buchanan and His Unfinished Analytical Agenda
7 A Closing Comment
References
Swimming in a Tuxedo: A Systems Theory Approach to Understanding Politics
1 Introduction
2 Why Parts?
3 Markets and Politics as Systems
4 The Behavior of Parts
5 Conclusion
References
Complex and Entangled Public Policy: Here Be Dragons
1 Introduction
2 The Development of Complexity Economics: A Short History
3 The Cutting Edge of Complexity Economics
3.1 Agent-Based Modeling: Simulating the Entire Economy
3.2 Graph Theory: Interactions on a Network Topology
3.3 Big Data and Machine Learning
4 Here Be Dragons
4.1 The Cybernetic Dragon: Or, How Agile Policy-Making Is Entangled with Agile Self-Organization
4.2 The Monstrous Neoclassical Hybrid
5 Conclusion: What Should Complexity Economists Do?
References
Taxonomy of Entrepreneurship – A Means-Oriented Approach
1 Introduction
2 Ends-Based Taxonomy
3 Entrepreneurship in the Entangled Political Economy
4 Conclusions
References
From Taciturn to Talkative Political Economy
1 Introduction
2 Communicative to Creative
3 Tuism and Talk
4 A Case Study: Democracy in Deficit
5 Conclusion
References
Entanglement and Perverse Spontaneous Orders
1 Introduction
2 Entangled Political Economy and the Logic of Intervention
3 Entanglement and Perverse Spontaneous Orders
4 Ecology of Public Aid Enterprises in the U.S.
5 Implications and Conclusion
References
The Tax Code as an Emergent Phenomenon
1 Tax Policy from the Perspective of Economists vs. Policymakers
2 Evolution of the Federal Tax Code in the United States
3 Tax Reform in the United States
4 Perverse Emergent Orders?
5 Conclusion
References
Political Property Rights and Entangled Political Economy
1 Introduction
2 An Overview of Political Property Rights
3 Constitutions and Political Property Rights
4 The Future of Political Property Rights and Entangled Political Economy
References
The Fiscal Squeeze: Budgets Between Fiscal Illusion, Fiscal Commons, and the Tyranny of Experts
1 Introduction
2 Fiscal Federalism – The Theory
2.1 Fiscal Federalism and Spending on Public Goods Production
2.2 Fiscal Federalism and Revenue for Public Goods Production
3 Definition and History of the Squeeze
3.1 Local to State: The First Part of the Squeeze
3.2 Federal to State
4 Consequences of the Squeeze
4.1 Fiscal Commons
4.2 Fiscal Illusion
4.3 Expert Bias
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index