Representative democracy and capital taxation

Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England

Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast · The Journal of Economic History · 1989 · 5.3K citations

Law, Constitutional Law, Public Policy +14

The Optimal Degree of Commitment to an Intermediate Monetary Target

Kenneth Rogoff · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1985 · 3.7K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Behavioral Economics +5

The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets

Barry R. Weingast, William Marshall · Journal of Political Economy · 1988 · 1.5K citations

Public Affairs, Political Science, Committee Systems +12

A General Equilibrium Model of Insurrections

Herschel I. Grossman · American Economic Review · 1991 · 807 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Resource Economics +11

Delegation and the Theory of the Firm

John Vickers · The Economic Journal · 1985 · 791 citations

Management, Business Economics, Organization Studies +15