James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy

A Rational Reconstruction

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-23
Mått:154 x 221 x 17 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498539081

Utforska kategorier

Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Richard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University.

Recensioner i media

Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan died in 2013. His former student, colleague, and coauthor Richard Wagner has written this account of Buchanan’s work from the perspective of the modern scholar. Hence the use of the words “rational reconstruction” in the subtitle. Rather than an intellectual biography, Wagner provides a composite of Buchanan’s themes and puts them together for the modern theorist to appreciate and use. There are benefits and costs to such an approach, and Wagner makes the most of the benefits. From public choice to constitutional economics to the quest for a moral order, Wagner outlines what the modern theorist considers to be the strength of Buchanan’s program. Wagner’s approach makes this an excellent study not only of Buchanan, but of political economy generally. A useful contrast as well for the recent study of Buchanan by Nancy MacLean (Democracy in Chains, 2017). For libraries with strong collections in public choice and constitutional political economy, or those which seek good additions in those fields that will enable students and researchers to understand contemporary work. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

1.Introducing James Buchanan2.The Theory of Public Finance: Buchanan’s Scholarly Sapling 3.Collective Action and Constitutional Political Economy4.Federalism and the Constitution of Collective Action 5.Public Debt, Time, and Democratic Action6.Entitlement, Liberty, and Responsibility7.Ethics, Social Philosophy, and Liberal Political Economy