William A. Niskanen

58 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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Bureaucracy and Representative Government19712026198920071971197510002.0k3.0k

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William A. Niskanen
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  • Economics and Econometrics 2.7k
  • Political Science and International Relations 2.1k
  • Strategy and Management 848
  • Sociology and Political Science 828
  • Public Administration 825
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All Works

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The Undemanding Ethics of Capitalism
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Limiting Government: The Failure of "Starve the Beast"
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Book Review: Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism
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An Unconventional Perspective on the Greenspan Record
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Book Review: Virginia Political Economy: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Volume 1
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More Lonely Numbers
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U.S. Elections Are Increasingly Biased against Moderates
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Corporate aftershock : the public policy lessons from the collapse of Enron and other major corporations
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On the Fed's Demand Bubble
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On the Death of the Phillips Curve
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Reshaping the Global Financial Architecture: Is There a Role for the IMF?
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Building on the WTO's Success
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AV OTE FOR PEROT WAS A VOTE FOR THE STATUS QUO
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WELFARE AND THE CULTURE OF POVERTY
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Political Guidance on Monetary Policy
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Book Review: Generational Accounting; Knowing Who Pays, and When, for What We Spend by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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ECONOMIC DEREGULATION IN THE UNITED STATES: LESSONS FOR AMERICA, LESSONS FOR CHINA
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Book Review: The New Politics of the Budgetary Process
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Benefit-cost and policy analysis : an Aldine annual on forecasting, decision-making, and evaluation
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Особая экономика бюрократии (The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy)
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About William A. Niskanen

William A. Niskanen is a scholar working on General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Finance, having authored 66 papers that have together received 5.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (10 papers), Economic Theory and Policy (6 papers) and Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (825 citations), Economics and Econometrics (2.7k citations) and Political Science and International Relations (2.1k citations). William A. Niskanen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Jean‐Luc Migué, Gérard Bélanger, Robert W. Crandall, Clifford Winston, Steve H. Hanke, Alvin K. Klevorick, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, David T. Ellwood and Christopher L. Culp. Their work appears in journals such as American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Perspectives and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

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