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Side Effects of Tools Used in Economic Policy Public choice analysis interprets politicians and public officials as the self-interested agents of the public. Constitutional and administrative law are sometimes thought to be implicitly based on the assumption that policy-makers and public employees are benevolent. Both assumptions are obviously too strong. The paper strives for a more realistic, but sufficiently robust approach. It adds behavioural assumptions for firms and interest associations. It looks at possible safeguards. It uses these insights for comparing tools for solving public goods problems.