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Public Choice (PC) is a quite important field in Italy, where this discipline is taught (not necessarily approvingly) in many courses of Public Finance, as well as in some Universities, in special courses of “Economia delle Scelte Pub-bliche” (the Italian translation of PC), a name which is also part of the title of the Italian Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice (1983 on).
It seems to be the destiny of individual freedom at the present time to be defended mainly by economists rather than by lawyers or political scientists. (Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law, 1961)
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Da Empoli, D. (1993). Public choice in Italy. In: Rowley, C.K., Schneider, F., Tollison, R.D. (eds) The Next Twenty-five Years of Public Choice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3402-8_8
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