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Politics by Principle, Not Interest Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
“Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is ‘politics by interest,’ whether in the form of explicitly discriminatory treatment (rewarding or punishing) of particular groupings of citizens or of some elitist-dirigiste classification of citizens into the deserving or non-deserving on the basis of a presumed
The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne
Henry G. Manne
Издател: Liberty Fund
As the founder of the Center for Law and Economics at George Mason University and dean emeritus of the George Mason School of Law, Henry G. Manne is one of the founding scholars of law and economics as a discipline. This three-volume collection includes articles, reviews, and books from more than four decades, featuring Wall Street in Transition,
The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
In his foreword, Robert D. Tollison identifies the main objective of Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan’s The Reason of Rules: “. . . a book-length attempt to focus the energies of economists and other social analysts on the nature and function of the rules under which ordinary political life and market life function.”
In persuasive
The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
Commenting on his collaboration with Geoffrey Brennan on The Power to Tax, James M. Buchanan says that the book is “demonstrable proof of the value of genuine research collaboration across national-cultural boundaries.” Buchanan goes on to say that “The Power to Tax is informed by a single idea—the implications of a revenue-maximizing
Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
Democracy in Deficit is one of the early comprehensive attempts to apply the basic principles of public-choice analysis to macroeconomic theory and policy.
According to Robert D. Tollison in the foreword, “The central purpose of the book was to examine the simple precepts of Keynesian economics through the lens of public-choice theory. The
The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
Published originally in 1975, The Limits of Liberty made James Buchanan’s name more widely known than ever before among political philosophers and theorists and established Buchanan, along with John Rawls and Robert Nozick, as one of the three new contractarians, standing on the shoulders of Hobbes, Locke, and Kant.
While The Limits of
The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
The Calculus of Consent was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many books and academic enterprises throughout their careers. As Robert D. Tollison states in the foreword, “[this book] is a radical departure from the way democracies conduct their business. The Calculus is already a book for the
The Demand and Supply of Public Goods
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
Public-goods theory constituted a major element in James M. Buchanan’s research agenda throughout the 1960s. The Demand and Supply of Public Goods is a major part of that work.
At the time that Buchanan was elaborating on his theories of public goods, the prevailing trend in public economics was the emergence of public-expenditure theory,
Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
Public Principles of Public Debt is one of James M. Buchanan’s most important and influential books. The radical idea he conceived was that: our reliance on public debt has amassed a sort of orthodoxy that is commonly—and needlessly—assumed by taxpayers, by politicians, and by economists themselves.
Buchanan dismisses the nearly
Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice
Издател: Liberty Fund
Public Finance in Democratic Process is James M. Buchanan’s monumental work that outlines the dynamics of individual choice as it is displayed in the process of public finance.
Buchanan is perhaps nowhere more clearly a disciple of the great Swedish economist Knut Wicksell than he is in the underlying principles of this seminal work.
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