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Government Failures/Public-Choice Analysis Video and Quiz

Updated: July 12 2012,
Author: barrel jason
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Incentive, Public-Choice Analysis, Roles of Government
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This video teaches the concepts of Government Failures and Public-Choice Analysis. In the real world, government failure may occur so that government decisions do not represent the majority. Public-choice analysis is the branch of economics that studies how political decisions are actually made.

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