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The Political Economy Of International Organizations: A Public Choice Approach

Roland Vaubel and Thomas D. Willett
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.
Spring 1992
The Political Economy Of International Organizations: A Public Choice Approach
Roland Vaubel and Thomas D. Willett
Westview Press
1991
311 pp.
$59.95
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The "public choice approach" seems to mean different things to different adherents. It is at its best when it stresses realistic observation and attention to detail. Those who do not belong to any of its schools of thought will find the studies of individual organizations more rewarding than the methodological essays.

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