Formal Contributions To The Theory Of Public Choice Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
I	History
	Hobbe's Contribution to Abstract Political Science	5
	How Expenditure of the Tax Proceeds Came to be Disregarded in the Theory of incidence	13
	Historical Notes: Pythagoreans, Reverend C. L. Dodgson, Knut Wicksell and Lord Keynes	29
	Some Notes on the Development Structure of the Theory of Committees	41
II	Epistemology
	Some Important Distinctions: The Traditional Distinction Between Instrumental and Independent Actions	67
	Rational Behavior	71
	The Mechanism of Hedonistic Choice	75
	The Commensurability of Intensities of Desires (Pleasures)	93
	That the same Mathematical Model Applies in Epistemology	111
	The Assumptions - Imperfect Knowledge, Divided Expectations and the Discount	119
III	Logrolling
	On-Logrolling	131
	Logrolling	133
	Wicksell's Use of the Theory of Committees in Public Finance	153
	The Geometrical Theory of a Special Majority Geometry	177
	The Theory of an International Committee Requiring a Unanimous Decision	189
	Dicey on Logrolling	195
IV	Economics
	The Concept of Cost in Economics	201
	Wicksteed's Theorem That the Concept of Supply Could be Dispensed With and Its Narrower and Wider Implications	213
V	Psychology
	The Theory of Relative Utility Following the Second Austrian School	229
	Definition of Relative Weights and Hypothesis That Choice Follows the Condorcet or Borda Criterion	243
	A Suggested Application of the Theory of Committees in Value and Probability	253
	Appendix I : Curriculum Vitae of Duncan Black	263
	Index	267