Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: The Market Metaphor 2: The Informed Voter 3: Electoral-Market Competition and the Control of Opportunistic Behavior 4: Transaction Costs and the Design of Government institutions 5: Homo Economicus versus Homo Psychologicus: Why Cognitive Psychology Does Not Explain Democratic Politics 6: Legislative Markets and Organization 7: Pressure Groups 8: Bureaucratic Markets: Why Government Bureaucracies Are Efficient and Not Too Large 9: The Market for Regulation 10: The Constitution as an Optimal Social Contract and the Role of Transaction Costs in Constitutional Design 11: Majority Rule and Preference Aggregation 12: The Distribution of Economic Wealth and Political Power 13: The Testing of Theory 14: Epilogue: The Burden of Proof References Author Index Subject index

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