James M Buchanan And Liberal Political Economy

Author : Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498539074

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James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy by Richard E. Wagner Pdf

James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan’s body of work. The book uses Buchanan’s past contributions to explore the present and future relevance of his scholarly contributions and insights. It seeks mainly to explain what insight for their work contemporary scholars might acquire by becoming familiar with some of Buchanan’s formulations. Buchanan was one of the most creative and prolific scholars of political economy during the post-war period. Not only was his body of work so immense that it could not be contained within 20 volumes of Collected Works, but also Buchanan’s scholarship made such strong contact with law, ethics, and political science that he could easily have served as a poster-child for the programs in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics which have been gaining momentum in recent years. Buchanan spoke for a style of economics that made wide and firm contact with the full range of the humane studies. This book emphasizes those features of Buchanan’s thought that seem relevant for contemporary scholarship within the broadly liberal tradition of political economy.

Author : Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030030803

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James M. Buchanan by Richard E. Wagner Pdf

“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.”– Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA"The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine collection is the extraordinary expanse of James Buchanan's work. Everyone interested in economics and related fields can profit mightily from this book."– Mario Rizzo, Professor of Economics, New York University, USA This book explores the academic contribution of James Buchanan, who received the Nobel Prize for economics in 1986. Buchanan’s receipt of the Prize is noteworthy because he was a maverick within the economics profession. In contrast to the preponderance of economists, Buchanan made little use of mathematics and no use of econometrics, preferring to used logic and language to insert his ideas into the scholarly community. Moreover, his ideas extended the domain of economic inquiry along many paths that numerous economists subsequently pursued. Buchanan’s scholarship brought economics and political science together under the rubric of public choice. He was also was a prime figure in bringing economic theory into closer contact with moral and social philosophy.This volume includes essays distributed across the extensive domain of Buchanan’s scholarly contributions, reflecting the range of his scholarly interests. Chapters will examine Buchanan’s scholarly work on public finance, social insurance, public debt, public choice, economic methodology, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and ethics and social theory. The book also examines Buchanan in relation to other prominent economists, both from the distant past and the recent past.

Author : John Meadowcroft
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441195753

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James M. Buchanan by John Meadowcroft Pdf

This is volume 17 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.

Author : James M Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942951965

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The Soul of Classical Political Economy by James M Buchanan Pdf

James M. Buchanan, a prominent political economist of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate in economics, was a founding thinker of the public choice tradition and was instrumental in the reintroduction of politics into economic analysis. He was also an intellectual entrepreneur who developed new and innovative centers for research, graduate programs, and outlets for academic publication. Having taught at a variety of institutions, including the University of Tennessee, Florida State University, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech, he moved the Center for Study of Public Choice to George Mason University in 1983, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. After his passing in 2013, the Special Collections Research Center for the Mason University Libraries began to compile a formal archive, the James M. Buchanan Papers, documenting Buchanan's contributions to social science and his intellectual legacy. This volume, The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James M. Buchanan from the Archives, edited by Peter J. Boettke and Alain Marciano, provides a unique window into not only the man, the scholar, and the teacher, but also the fields of public choice and public economics that Buchanan advanced over his productive and esteemed career. The sections in this volume correspond to important themes for understanding Buchanan's views on political economy as a social philosophy. The editors illustrate Buchanan's views by using archival material-most of it original and previously unpublished-and offering context as a guide through the evolution of Buchanan's expansive scholarship that took place over roughly seven decades and spanned the fields of philosophy, politics, and economics. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in Buchanan's work, in public choice theory, and in the continuing study of political economy.

Author : Peter J Boettke,Alain Marciano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942951973

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The Soul of Classical Political Economy by Peter J Boettke,Alain Marciano Pdf

ames M. Buchanan, a prominent political economist of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate in economics, was a founding thinker of the public choice tradition and was instrumental in the reintroduction of politics into economic analysis. He was also an intellectual entrepreneur who developed new and innovative centers for research, graduate programs, and outlets for academic publication. Having taught at a variety of institutions, including the University of Tennessee, Florida State University, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech, he moved the Center for Study of Public Choice to George Mason University in 1983, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. After his passing in 2013, the Special Collections Research Center for the Mason University Libraries began to compile a formal archive, the James M. Buchanan Papers, documenting Buchanan's contributions to social science and his intellectual legacy. This volume, The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James M. Buchanan from the Archives, edited by Peter J. Boettke and Alain Marciano, provides a unique window into not only the man, the scholar, and the teacher, but also the fields of public choice and public economics that Buchanan advanced over his productive and esteemed career. The sections in this volume correspond to important themes for understanding Buchanan's views on political economy as a social philosophy. The editors illustrate Buchanan's views by using archival material-most of it original and previously unpublished-and offering context as a guide through the evolution of Buchanan's expansive scholarship that took place over roughly seven decades and spanned the fields of philosophy, politics, and economics. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in Buchanan's work, in public choice theory, and in the continuing study of political economy.

Author : Dwight R. Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461459095

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Public Choice, Past and Present by Dwight R. Lee Pdf

In 1962, economists James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock published The Calculus of Consent, in which they developed the principles of public choice theory. In the fifty years since its publication, the book has defined the field and set the standard for research and analysis. To celebrate a half-century of scholarship in public choice, Dwight Lee has assembled distinguished academics from around the world to reflect on the influence of this monumental publication, and, more broadly, the legacy of its legendary authors. Their essays cover a broad spectrum of topics and approaches, from the impact of public choice theory on foreign policy analysis to personal remembrances of learning from and collaborating with Buchanan and Tullock. The result is a unique collection of insights that celebrate public choice and its visionary proponents, while considering its future directions. ​

Author : Peter J. Boettke,Solomon Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1942951426

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Buchanan's Tensions by Peter J. Boettke,Solomon Stein Pdf

"Buchanan's Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of James M. Buchanan," a collection of eight original scholarly essays, presents a critical assessment of Buchanan's research and ideas.

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226078205

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The Limits of Liberty by James M. Buchanan Pdf

"The Limits of Liberty is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political philosophy."—Scott Gordon, Journal of Political Economy James Buchanan offers a strikingly innovative approach to a pervasive problem of social philosophy. The problem is one of the classic paradoxes concerning man's freedom in society: in order to protect individual freedom, the state must restrict each person's right to act. Employing the techniques of modern economic analysis, Professor Buchanan reveals the conceptual basis of an individual's social rights by examining the evolution and development of these rights out of presocial conditions.

Author : Geoffrey Brennan,James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521070902

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The Reason of Rules by Geoffrey Brennan,James M. Buchanan Pdf

Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, rather like the rules of the road, coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, is a matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted, the working of social rules is also the central subject matter of modern political economy. This book is about rules - what they are, how they work, and how they can be properly analysed. The authors' objective is to understand the workings of alternative political institutions so that choices among such institutions (rules) can be more fully informed. Thus, broadly defined, the methodology of constitutional political economy is the subject matter of The Reason of Rules. The authors have examined how rules for political order work, how such rules might be chosen, and how normative criteria for such choices might be established.

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Collected Works of James M. Bu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0865979642

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The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan by James M. Buchanan Pdf

This monumental twenty-volume series presents the writings of James M. Buchanan, one of the great twentieth-century scholars of liberty. Buchanan, the Nobel laureate in Economics in 1986, has much wisdom to offer--not just to academics and economists--but to all who seek to understand the challenges and opportunities of governance in our age. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan includes ten monographs and all of the important journal articles, papers, and essays that Buchanan produced in a distinguished career spanning more than half a century. Among the monographs are such famous works as The Calculus of Consent (coauthored by Gordon Tullock) and The Limits of Liberty, as well as Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory. The monographs have been cast into a new format, and new indexes have been created. In addition, each volume includes a foreword by one of the three editors of the series, each of whom is a distinguished economist in his own right. "This is a series," write the editors, "that no serious scholar of public choice theory, public economics, or contemporary political theory will want to be without. It is a series that will also appeal to the general student of liberty, for Buchanan has--perhaps more than any other contemporary scholar--helped us to view politics without the romantic gloss that characterizes much normative political theory and that slips unthinkingly into so much popular commentary. Buchanan has been a resolute defender of 'the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals' and has been a painstaking analyst of the institutional structure that might best support such a society. Buchanan stands with von Mises, Hayek, Popper, and Friedman as one of the great twentieth-century scholars of liberty." As James Buchanan, himself, wrote, "My interest in understanding how the economics interaction process works has always been instrumental to the more inclusive purpose of understanding how we can learn to live with one another without engaging in Hobbesian war and without subjecting ourselves to the dictates of the state." James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was an eminent economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. He founded the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, where he was a professor of economics, and is considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty of the twentieth century.

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022187473

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The Political Economy of the Welfare State by James M. Buchanan Pdf

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Collected Works of James M. Bu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0865972494

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Ideas, Persons, and Events by James M. Buchanan Pdf

This final volume (save for the Index) in Liberty Fund's The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan acquaints us most intimately with the man himself. Included are essays and short pieces that shed light on Buchanan's view of the world. Ranging from personal reflections on the art and science of economics, to restatements of his central themes and reminiscences of his encounters and collaborations with other great thinkers, this volume presents James Buchanan as a multidimensional human being, not just as a great economic and political thinker. The thirty-three pieces collected in Ideas, Persons, and Events are grouped into these categories: Autobiographical and Personal Reflections Reflections on Fellow Political Economists Political Economy in the Post-Socialist Century Reform without Romance As Hartmut Kliemt states in his foreword, "The personal and the theoretical are often inseparably intertwined in the essays of this volume. . . . As a case in point, consider James Buchanan's account of his relationship to Frank Knight. This account not only sheds some interesting light on the personal element in the development of science, it also offers some new perspectives on the concept of the 'relatively absolute absolutes, ' which has been so central to Buchanan's thinking in general." James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was an eminent economist who won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 and was considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty in the twentieth century.

Author : David Reisman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4354835

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The Political Economy of James Buchanan by David Reisman Pdf

A survey of the political economy of James Buchanan seeking to explain his theories in detail and evaluate them in depth, covering topics such as the constitution and its failure, democracy, operational rules for the constitution and economics.

Author : David A. Reisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89058605999

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The Political Economy of James Buchanan by David A. Reisman Pdf

A political economist whose numerous and influential writings explore the no-man's-land that separates the social science disciplines. The founder of the constitutional economics paradigm, Buchanan was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in economic science for his contributions to a theory of constitutional political economy as well as his leadership of the public choice movement. In this volume, David Reisman seeks to explain and analyze the important insights of this difficult but stimulating multidisciplinary figure. Buchanan's recommendation of constitutional precommitment will appeal to all economists who share his conviction that politicians and bureaucrats, where not preconstrained by rules that they cannot alter at will, tend rapidly to become not servants but the masters of the electorate. His determination to define and defend the middle ground, neither anarchy nor Leviathan, will have a wider appeal still.

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica,Peter J. Boettke,Vlad Tarko
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190267032

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Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective by Paul Dragos Aligica,Peter J. Boettke,Vlad Tarko Pdf

A distinctive perspective on governance: the building blocks -- Classical liberalism : delineating its theory of governance -- Function, structure, and process at the private-public interface -- Dynamic governance : the polycentrism process and knowledge processes -- Public choice and public administration : the confluence -- Public administration and public choice : charting the field -- Public choice, public administration, and self-governance : the Ostromian confluence -- Heterogeneity, coproduction, and polycentric governance : the Ostroms' public choice institutionalism revisited -- Framing the applied level : themes, issue areas, and cases -- Metropolitan governance : polycentric solutions for complex problems -- Independent regulatory agencies and their reform : an exercise in institutional imagination -- Polycentric stakeholder analysis : corporate governance and corporate social responsibility -- Conclusions: governance and public management : a vindication of the classical-liberal perspective?