1 Political Economy: Problems with Paradigms.- 2 Modern Public Finance: The Neoclassical Approach.- Comment by Philip A. Klein.- 3 Fiscal Behavior of the Modern Democratic State: Public Choice Perspectives and Contributions.- Comment by Margaret Levi.- 4 A Marxist Theory of the State.- Comment by Andrzej Brzeski.- 5 Whither (Positive) Political Economy? One Reading.- Contributing Authors.
This volume contains original essays by outstanding scholars working within several of the dominant genres in contemporary political economy: neoclassical public finance, public choice, and Marxian analysis.