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- catalog abstract ""The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country's borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other manmade institution. In The Size of Nations they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13058591.
- catalog contributor b13058592.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the course of a river. Alesina and Spolaore consider a country's borders to be subject to the same analysis as any other manmade institution. In The Size of Nations they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity. In a large country, per capita costs may be low, but the heterogeneous preferences of a large population make it hard to deliver services and formulate policy. Smaller countries may find it easier to respond to citizen preferences in a democratic way."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Overlapping jurisdictions and the state -- Voting on borders -- Transfers -- Leviathans and the size of nations -- Openness, economic integration, and the size of nations -- Conflict and the size of nations -- War, peace, and the size of nations -- Federalism and decentralization -- Size and economic performance -- The size of nations : a historical overview -- The European Union.".
- catalog extent "x, 261 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Size of nations.".
- catalog identifier "0262012049 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9781423725329 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Size of nations.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog relation "Size of nations.".
- catalog subject "320.1 21".
- catalog subject "JC364 .A39 2003".
- catalog subject "States, Size of.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Overlapping jurisdictions and the state -- Voting on borders -- Transfers -- Leviathans and the size of nations -- Openness, economic integration, and the size of nations -- Conflict and the size of nations -- War, peace, and the size of nations -- Federalism and decentralization -- Size and economic performance -- The size of nations : a historical overview -- The European Union.".
- catalog title "The size of nations / Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore.".
- catalog type "text".