This book focuses on the nature of the public choice approach and many of the types of issues it raises. It presents a number of specific applications of public choice theory to the analysis of major international and regional economic organizations.

Dr. Roland Vaubel is professor of political economy at the University of Mannheim. Dr. Thomas D. Willett is professor of economics at the Claremont Graduate School and Claremont-McKenna College.

Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction /Roland Vaubel and Thomas D. Willett -- PART ONE -- The Public Choice Approach to International Economic Issues and Organizations: Theory -- 1 The Public Choice View of International Political Economy /Bruno S. Frey -- 2 A Public Choice View of International Organization /Roland Vaubel -- 3 Canons of Public Choice Analysis of International Agreements /Rodney T. Smith -- 4 International Organizations from the Constitutional Point of View /Bruno S. Frey and Beat Gygi -- 5 Approaches to the Study of International Organizations: Major Paradigms in Economics and Political Science /Patricia Dillon, Thomas L. Ilgen, and Thomas D. Willett -- 6 International Institutions and the Market for Information /Michele Fratianni and john Pattison -- PART TWO -- Applications -- 7 The GATT as an International Discipline over Trade Restrictions: A Public Choice Approach /J. Michael Finger -- 8 A Public Choice Perspective of the International Energy Program /Rodney T. Smith -- 9 U.S. Policy and the Law of the Sea Conference, 1969-1982: A Case Study of Multilateral Negotiations /Ross D. Eckert -- 10 The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund: A Public Choice Analysis /Roland Vaubel -- 11 Determinants of Foreign Aid Under Alternative Institutional Arrangements /Hannelore Weck-Hannemann and Friedrich Schneider -- 12 Unanimous Decisions in a Redistributive Context: The Council of Ministers of the European Communities /William S. Peirce -- 13 The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community: A Public Choice Interpretation /Tim ]osling and H. Wayne Moyer -- 14 A Public Choice View of the Delors Report /Roland Vaubel -- About the Book and Editors.