Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan
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Paul Dragos Aligica is a senior research fellow and senior fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Christopher J. Coyne is the F. A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. Stefanie Haeffele is the Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs and a senior fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.Main-stream philosophy has rediscovered economics, but economists’ jargon and styles of argument are often inaccessible. This volume presents fresh critical interpretations of the work of the 20th century’s premier political-economic contractarian, James Buchanan. Written by some of today’s best young scholars, the essays consider Buchanan’s contributions to social choice, contractarianism, and normative public finance. An essential compendium for professors and serious readers.
- Michael C. Munger, Director of PPE Program, Duke University,
Recently, James Buchanan has been an object of controversy along personal and political lines. This timely collection of papers engages the work of Buchanan in the appropriate spirit of academic critique and appraisal. A highly recommended collection for political theorists generally and in particular for those seriously interested in Buchanan's work.
- Geoffrey Brennan and Hartmut Kliemt, Editors of The Collected Works of James Buchanan,
Our fate as scholars is mostly to pass and be forgotten with the rest. James Buchanan’s fate is different. While he died in 2013, this collection of essays by advanced students from many universities shows that Buchanan’s work still inspires new scholars. It also introduces us to some bold thinkers whose work we will be studying in the coming years.
- Richard E. Wagner, Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University,
The foundations of political economy — from Adam Smith to the Austrian school of economics, to contemporary research in public choice and institutional analysis — are sturdy and well established, but far from calcified. On the contrary, the boundaries of the research built on this foundation are ever expanding. One approach to political economy that has gained considerable traction in recent years combines the insights and methods of three distinct but related subfields within economics and political science: the Austrian, Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy. The vision of this book series is to capitalize on the intellectual gains from the interactions between these approaches in order to both feed the growing interest in this approach and advance social scientists’ understanding of economy, polity, and society.This series seeks to publish works that combine the Austrian school’s insights on knowledge, the Virginia school’s insights into incentives in non-market contexts, and the Bloomington school’s multiple methods, real-world approach to institutional design as a powerful tool for understanding social behaviour in a diversity of contexts. This series is published in partnership with the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Series Editors: Virgil Storr and Jayme Lemke
Advisory Board: Paul Dragos Aligica, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, , Peter J. Boettke, George Mason University, , Christopher Coyne, George Mason University, , Monica De Zelaya, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, , Erwin Dekker, Erasmus University Rotterdam, , Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, , Jacob Levy, McGill University, , Paul Lewis, Kings’ College London, , Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, , Michael Munger, Duke University, , David Schmidtz, University of Arizona, , Rob Shields, University of Alberta Edmonton, , Richard Wilk, Indiana University Bloomington