Dennis Cary Mueller (born June 13, 1940) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Vienna.
He received a PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1966, where Jesse W. Markham and Stephen Goldfeld supervised his dissertation, "The Determinants of Industrial Research and Development."
Governments pursue their agenda of enlarging to inefficient sizes in the name of public interest at the expense of actual owners, citizens, and taxpayers.
Corporate managers pursue their agenda of unnecessarily making companies large and efficient at the cost of the actual owners, as well as stockholders.
On the public choice approach, he said, "Public choice approach is the economic study of non-market decision making or an application of economics to political science and the politico-administrative process of collective decision making."