James M. Buchanan

"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.

Auteur
Richard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, USA. He is Senior Fellow of the Academic Advisory Board at the Independent Institute, the James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies and the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. He was co-editor of the scholarly journal Constitutional Political Economy from 1989-1997, and he is currently a member of the editorial boards of Constitutional Political Economy, the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, and the Review of Austrian Economics. He was one of Buchanan's dissertation students, a co-author with Buchanan, and a faculty colleague for some 25 years.

Contenu

1. Who Was James M. Buchanan and Why is He Significant?- Richard E. Wagner
   Part I: Subjectivism and the Methodology of Political Economy 2. East Anglia, What Should Economists Do Now?- Robert Sugden
2. Duke, Starting from Where We Are: The Importance of the Status Quo in James Buchanan- Michael Munger
3. Brown, James Buchanan and the Properly Trained Economist- Peter J. Boettke, George Mason and Rosolino Candela
4. James Buchanan and the New Economics of Order Research Program- Stefan Kolev
5. George Mason, Emergence, Equilibrium, and Agent-based Modeling: Updating James Buchanan's Democratic Political Economy- Abigail N. Devereaux, George Mason and Richard E. Wagner
   Part II: Public Finance and the Theory of the State
6. The Conflict between Constitutionally Constraining the State and Empowering the State to Provide Public Goods- Lawrence H. White
7. Fiscal Constitutions, Institutional Congruence, and the Organization of Governments- Charles Beat Blankart and David Ehmke
8. The Irrelevance of Balanced Budget Amendments- David Hebert
9. Subsidizing Health Insurance: Tax Illusion and Public Choice for a mostly Private Good- Mark V. Pauly
10. Inconsistencies in the Finance of Public Services: Government Responses to Excess Demand- Andrew Abbott and Philip Jones
11. The Unproductive Protective State: The U.S. Defense Sector as a Fiscal Commons- Christopher J. Coyne and Thomas K. Duncan
12. Contraception without Romance: The Entangled Political Economy of State and Federal Contraception Mandates- Marta Podemska-Mikluch and Gustavus Adolphus

13. Samaritan's Dilemmas, Wealth Redistribution, and Polycentricity- Meg Tuszynski and Richard E. Wagner

    Part III: Collective Action and Constitutional Political Economy

14. Constitutional Reform: Promise and Reality- Dennis Mueller
15. Constitutional, Political, and Behavioral Feasibility- Alan Hamlin
    17. Blockchain and Buchanan: Code as Constitution- Shruti Rajagopalan
16. Blockchains as Constitutional Orders- Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts
17. The Questionable Morality of Compromising the Influence of Public Choice by Embracing a Nobel Lie- J.R. Clark and Dwight R. Lee.
18. Beneficent Bullshit- Peter T. Leeson
19. Groups, Sorting, and Inequality in Constitutional Political Economy- Jayme Lemke
20. Votes, Vetoes, Voice, and Exit: Constitutional Protections in the work of James M. Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom- Roberta Herzberg
    23. On the Definition and Nature of Fiscal Coercion- George Tridimas
    24. Politics as Exchange in the Byzantine Empire- Adam Martin and James Ruhland
    Part IV: Ethics, Social Philosophy, and Liberal Political Economy
21. James M. Buchanan: Political; Economist, Consistent Individualist- Viktor Vanberg
22. A Public Choice Analysis of James M. Buchanan's Constitutional Project- Randall Holcombe
23. Buchanan's Social Contract Unveiled- Enrico Colombatto
24. Constitutional Design and Politics-as-Exchange: The Optimism of Public Choice- Georg Vanberg
25. Doing Liberal Political Economy: James M. Buchanan as Exemplar- Glenn L. Furton and Alexander W. Salter
26. Buchanan, Hayek, and the Limits of Constitutional Ambitions- Don...