William A. Niskanen

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William A. Niskanen

Economics

#268

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#346

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#180

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Economics

William A. Niskanen's Degrees

PhD Economics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, William Arthur Niskanen was an American economist. He was one of the architects of President Ronald Reagan's economic program and contributed to public choice theory. He was also a long-time chairman of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank.

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William A. Niskanen's Published Works

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Bureaucracy and representative government (1971) (3528)
Bureaucrats and Politicians (1975) (1034)
Toward a general theory of managerial discretion (1974) (464)
Bureaucracy and Public Economics (1994) (295)
Deficits, government spending, and inflation: What is the evidence? (1978) (151)
Autocratic, Democratic, And Optimal Government (2003) (88)
The Case for a New Fiscal Constitution (1992) (60)
Redistribution Through Public Choice (1974) (56)
WELFARE AND THE CULTURE OF POVERTY (1996) (50)
Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People (1988) (48)
Competition Among Government Bureaus (1979) (45)
Bureaucracy--servant or master?: Lessons from America (1973) (44)
Limiting Government: The Failure of "Starve the Beast" (2006) (41)
On the Death of the Phillips Curve (2002) (41)
Explaining Regulatory Policy (1994) (31)
Conditions affecting the survivial of constitutional rules (1990) (31)
Economists and drug policy (1992) (25)
A Working Nation: Workers, Work, and Government in the New Economy (2000) (25)
THE SoFT INFRASTRUCTURE OF A MARKET ECONOMY (1991) (23)
Autocratic, democratic, and optimal government : fiscal choices and economic outcomes (2003) (22)
Land Prices Substantially Underestimate the Value of Environmental Quality (1977) (18)
Policy Analysis and Public Choice (1998) (17)
The Prospect for Liberal Democracy (1978) (17)
Corporate aftershock : the public policy lessons from the collapse of Enron and other major corporations (2003) (15)
The several costs of responding to the threat of terrorism (2006) (13)
Cities and Schools: A Case for Community Government in California. (1974) (12)
Economists and politicians (1986) (10)
The Performance and Management of United States Federal Government Corporations (1989) (10)
After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy (2005) (10)
Reshaping the Global Financial Architecture: Is There a Role for the IMF? (1999) (10)
Economic Deregulation in the United States: Lessons for America, Lessons for China (1989) (10)
Policy Analysis and Public Choice: Selected Papers by William A. Niskanen (1998) (10)
The Undemanding Ethics of Capitalism (2009) (9)
The Uneasy Relation between the Budget and Trade Deficits (1989) (9)
Going digital! : a guide to policy in the digital age (1998) (8)
Book Review: Generational Accounting; Knowing Who Pays, and When, for What We Spend by Laurence J. Kotlikoff (1992) (8)
Gordon Tullock’s contribution to bureaucracy (2012) (8)
The Demand for Alcoholic Beverages: An Experiment in Econometric Method (1962) (8)
Structural reform of the Federal budget process (1973) (8)
Bureaucrats between Self Interest and Public Interest (1983) (7)
Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Political Processes (2008) (7)
The Politics Of Budget Control: Congress, The Presidency And Growth Of The Administrative State (1992) (7)
Political Guidance on Monetary Policy (1992) (7)
Book Review: Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism (2006) (6)
Crime, Police, and Root Causes (2010) (6)
On the Constitution of a Compound Republic (1999) (6)
The Determinants of U.S. Capital Imports (1991) (5)
Why New Methods of Budgetary Choices? Administrative Aspects (1972) (5)
Should Ex-Im Bank Be Retired? (2002) (4)
The economics of insurgency (1970) (4)
An Unconventional Perspective on the Greenspan Record (2006) (4)
22. The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy (2019) (4)
A Test of the Demand Rule the Case for a Demand Rule (2001) (4)
A Vote for Perot Was a Vote for the Status Quo (1998) (4)
The 1973 Economic Report of the President (1973) (4)
Benefit-cost and policy analysis : an Aldine annual on forecasting, decision-making, and evaluation (1972) (4)
Should Ex-Im Bank Be Retired? (2002) (4)
Building on the WTO's Success (1999) (3)
Perspectives on Political Economy. (1991) (3)
Book Review: The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1989) (3)
A CONSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO TAXES AND TRANSFERS (1986) (3)
Dollars, deficits & trade (1989) (3)
PROPOSAL FOR A 'SMOG TAX' (1959) (2)
On the Fed's Demand Bubble (2003) (2)
AT EST OF THE DEMAND RULE (2001) (2)
Mistrust but Verify: Memoirs of the Reagan Era (1989) (2)
TOWARD MORE EFFICIENT FISCAL INSTITUTIONS (1972) (2)
U.S. Elections Are Increasingly Biased against Moderates (2004) (2)
A "Supply-Side" Industrial Policy (1984) (2)
The reflections of a grump (1993) (2)
Public Choice versus the Benevolent Omniscient Planner Model of Government: Evidence from Principles Textbooks By James Gwartney (2014) (2)
Advice from a Friendly American on the Proposed Constitution for the European Union (2004) (1)
The District of Columbia: America's Worst Government? (2010) (1)
Capital Mobility, Inflation, and Harmonization (1998) (1)
Progressive Taxation and Democratic Government: A Public Choice Analysis (1989) (1)
In Pursuit of Price Stability: The Wage-Price Freeze of 1971 . By Arnold R. Weber. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1973. Pp. 137. $5.95, cloth; $2.50, paper.) (1974) (1)
Fiscal Effects on US Economic Growth (1993) (1)
Budget Policy And Processes: Where Do We Go From Here? (1984) (1)
Alternative Political and Economic Futures for Europe (2012) (1)
How to Give Government Managers Incentives to Cur Costs (1981) (1)
Book Review: Virginia Political Economy: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Volume 1 (2004) (1)
Dennis C. Mueller (Ed.), Perspectives on public choice: A handbook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii + 672 pages. $79.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) (1998) (1)
A reflection on the role of the council of economic advisers (1986) (1)
Considerations Affecting The Size of Cities and School Districts (1980) (1)
Government-managed healthcare. More for less or less for more? (1994) (0)
William A. Niskanen (ed.), After ENRON: Lessons for Public Policy. Rowman Littlefield Publishers. Lanham: Maryland. 22.99 (2005) (0)
Book review (1974) (0)
May We Cut in, Mr. Clinton? (1993) (0)
The economic burden of taxation (2003) (0)
Clintonomics: Introductory comments (1994) (0)
Redistribution Through Public Choice. Edited by Hochman Harold and Peterson George. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. 341. $12.50.) (1977) (0)
EMPLOYMENT AND MICROECONOMIC POLICY (1996) (0)
Book Review: Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman (1996) (0)
Constitutional Limits to State and Local Spending (2005) (0)
Models of Government (2003) (0)
Book Review:Cost Effectiveness: Economic Evaluation of Engineered Systems. J. Morley English (1969) (0)
The erosion of the liberal economic order (1995) (0)
The Search for Administration Responsibility@@@Political Bureaucracy@@@From Amoral to Humane Bureaucracy@@@Bureaucracy and Representative Government@@@The Dilemma of Accountability in Modern Government (1974) (0)
Book Review: The Political Economy of the GATT (1990) (0)
Corporations as Suppliers of Public Goods ? (2005) (0)
Arsenic and Old Facts (2001) (0)
Culture and Institutions (2003) (0)
Slow Down the Political Response to a Perceived Crisis (2009) (0)
Government-managed healthcare. (1994) (0)
The Clinton Regulatory Legacy (2001) (0)
Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman (1994) (0)
Gordon Tullock’s contribution to bureaucracy (2012) (0)
Fiscal Effects on U.S. Economic Growth (2019) (0)
Clintonomics: Concluding comments (1994) (0)
Book Review: Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by Paul Hockenos (1994) (0)
Employment and Microeconomic Policy (1996) (0)
CPR for Tax Reform (1997) (0)
U.S. ELECTIONS ARE INCREASINGLY BIASED (2004) (0)
The Economic Theory of Representative Government. By Albert Breton. (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1974. Pp. 228. $8.50.) (1976) (0)
Land Prices Substantially Underestimate the Value of Environmental Quality: A Rejoinder (1980) (0)
On the Choice of Regime (2003) (0)
Contributors (2020) (0)
What Microeconomics Teaches Us about the Dynamic Macro Effects of Fiscal Policy: Comment (1988) (0)
Book Review: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (2007) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
Variations on the Democratic Model (2003) (0)
CAPITAL MOBILITY, INFLATION, (1998) (0)
Defense Planning and Organization (1970) (0)
Book reviews (1989) (0)
On Wisconsin: Some Friendly Constitutional Advice (2006) (0)
Fiscal Rules for a Democracy (2003) (0)
Ends and Means of Reducing Income Poverty. By Lampman Robert J.. (Chicago: Markham, 1971. Pp. 168. $3.95, paper.) (1973) (0)
DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (2006) (0)
Clean Act Water Brief (2008) (0)
Second Opinions: Principles for Health Care Reform in a Free Society (1995) (0)
A PRIMER ON CLINTON0MIcs (1994) (0)
American Economic Association The Choice between Market Failures and Corruption (2007) (0)
A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO MILITARY AIR TRANSPORTATION (1959) (0)
6 Economic Regulation (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Budget's New Clothes: A Critique of Planning-Programming-Budgeting and Benefit-Cost Analysis. Leonard Merewitz, Stephen H. Sosnick (1972) (0)
A Reformulation of Voting Theory (2007) (0)
TAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATION BY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: FOUR PERSPECTIVES ON THE CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE,. (1973) (0)
Major Threats to the Financial Services Revolution (1994) (0)
A Reply to George Stigler: Evaluating Government Policy (1989) (0)
The fiscal future of canada: Introductory comments (1995) (0)
An introduction to the clinton health plan (1994) (0)
Triumphs & Traps; What's Ahead for Conservatives (1997) (0)
Bringing Power to Knowledge. Choosing Policies to Use Decentralized Knowledge (2001) (0)
Inertia and Public Bureaucracy : the Imprint of the Bureaucrat (2016) (0)

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