The late James M. Buchanan, former Distinguished Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Advisory General Director, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, USRecipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

'Buchanan's work is widely read and cited by those working within economics and political economy. This excellent book shows that he also has an important contribution to make to political theory. It is to be hoped that it will go some way towards giving Buchanan's work the wider circulation it undoubtedly deserves with this field.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative 2. Classical Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man 3. Normative Presuppositions for Democracy 4. Beyond Law: The Institutionalized Ethics of Liberal Order 5. The Equivocal Ethics of Liberalism 6. The Soul of Classical Liberalism 7. Classical Liberalism as an Organizing Ideal 8. The Sense of Community in Hayekian Moral Order 9. The Hayek Difference 10. God, the State and the Market 11. Madison’s Angels 12. The Emergence of a Classical Liberal: A Confessional Exercise Index

The late James M. Buchanan, former Distinguished Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Advisory General Director, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, USRecipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

'Buchanan's work is widely read and cited by those working within economics and political economy. This excellent book shows that he also has an important contribution to make to political theory. It is to be hoped that it will go some way towards giving Buchanan's work the wider circulation it undoubtedly deserves with this field.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative 2. Classical Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man 3. Normative Presuppositions for Democracy 4. Beyond Law: The Institutionalized Ethics of Liberal Order 5. The Equivocal Ethics of Liberalism 6. The Soul of Classical Liberalism 7. Classical Liberalism as an Organizing Ideal 8. The Sense of Community in Hayekian Moral Order 9. The Hayek Difference 10. God, the State and the Market 11. Madison’s Angels 12. The Emergence of a Classical Liberal: A Confessional Exercise Index

The late James M. Buchanan, former Distinguished Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Advisory General Director, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, USRecipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

'Buchanan's work is widely read and cited by those working within economics and political economy. This excellent book shows that he also has an important contribution to make to political theory. It is to be hoped that it will go some way towards giving Buchanan's work the wider circulation it undoubtedly deserves with this field.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative 2. Classical Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man 3. Normative Presuppositions for Democracy 4. Beyond Law: The Institutionalized Ethics of Liberal Order 5. The Equivocal Ethics of Liberalism 6. The Soul of Classical Liberalism 7. Classical Liberalism as an Organizing Ideal 8. The Sense of Community in Hayekian Moral Order 9. The Hayek Difference 10. God, the State and the Market 11. Madison’s Angels 12. The Emergence of a Classical Liberal: A Confessional Exercise Index