This collection of essays uses rational-choice analysis to try to find the origins of nationalism.

List of contributors and discussants; Introduction; 1. Rights, rationality, and nationality James S. Coleman; 2. Self interest, group identity Russell Hardin; 3. Some economics of ethnic capital formation and conflict Ronald Wintrobe; 4. Ethnic clubs, ethnic conflict and the rise of ethnic nationalism Roger D. Congleton; 5. The re-emergence of secessionism: lessons from Quebec Stéphane Dion; 6. Nationalism revisited Albert Breton and Margot Breton; 7. Notes on the political economy of nationalism Ronald Findlay; 8. Conservative nationalism and democratic institutions Jean-Dominique Lafay; 9. Can economics explain nationalism? Ugo Pagano; 10. The economics of socialist nationalism: evidence and theory Mario Ferrero; 11. Regulating nations and ethnic communities Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry; 12. Nations competing against themselves: an interpretation of European integration Pierre Salmon; Index.