Public choice theory
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Public choice theory is a branch of economics that grew out of the analysis of taxation and its relation to public spending. While it emerged in the 1950s, it reached its apex of public attention in 1986 when James Buchanan, one the cofounders of the theory, received the Nobel Prize in Economics. Public choice theory in essence takes the microeconomic principles that economists use to understand people's decisions in the marketplace and applies them to analyze people's actions in the realm of politics: collective decision making (Shaw). Microeconomics is founded on the idea that people's activities in the marketplace are based solely on their own personal concerns. Public choice economists, like their microeconomist brethren, make the assumption that people are motivated chiefly by self-interest (Shaw). This essay will analyze Public Choice Theory through the lens of a Marxist theorist. We will find that Public Choice Theory, with its emphasis on the use of micro-economics to analyze political activity, is utterly at odds with the M
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