Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Ideas and the Rules of Politics

2. The Never-Ending Quest for Good Government

3. Economists Join the Battle of Political Ideas

4. Public Choice: How We Choose Bad Policies and Get Stuck with Them, or Not

5. How Ideas Matter for Political Change

6. Four Stories of Political Change

7. What Is to Be Done? Assembling the Wisdom

Notes

Index