Abstract This is a review article of The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, edited by Roger Congleton, Bernard Grofman, and Stefan Voigt. This two-volume collection has 90 chapters, with each chapter averaging 20.4 pages (excluding the volumes’ indexes). My subtitle conveys my judgment of this work. The articles are written for serious readers, and they give clear and concise statements of the material they cover. Someone who reads one of the articles will arrive in the vicinity of the frontier of the mainstream of public choice theorizing as this has developed since the middle of the twentieth century. Despite my position from somewhere outside the public choice mainstream, I acknowledge readily and enthusiastically the ability of the essays in this Handbook to convey the contemporary state of public choice theorizing. The editors and authors deserve congratulations for their fine work.

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牛津公共选择手册：精妙的纲要

摘要 这是罗杰·康格尔顿、伯纳德·格罗夫曼和斯特凡·沃格特编辑的《牛津公共选择手册》的评论文章。该两卷合集共 90 章，每章平均 20.4 页（不包括卷索引）。我的副标题传达了我对这部作品的判断。这些文章是为认真的读者写的，它们对所涵盖的材料进行了清晰简洁的陈述。阅读其中一篇文章的人将接近公共选择理论主流的前沿，因为这是自 20 世纪中叶以来的发展。尽管我处于公共选择主流之外的某个地方，但我欣然并热情地承认本手册中的文章能够传达公共选择理论的当代状态。