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James M. Buchanan /
James McGill Buchanan (B. 1919) is an American economist best known for his public choice theory. The founder of a new Virginia school of political economy, he has written extensively on subjects including public finance, macroeconomics, and libertarian theory. <br /><br />Buchanan8217;s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Colección: | Major conservative and libertarian thinkers ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- The Referencing of Buchanan8217;s Work in this Book
- 1. Buchanan8217;s Intellectual Biography
- Introduction
- Early Years and War Years
- Chicago
- Frank Knight
- Knut Wicksell
- Knoxville, Tallahassee and the Italian Year
- Virginia Political Economy
- Charlottesville
- UCLA and 8216;academia in anarchy8217;
- Blacksburg
- Fairfax
- Nobel Prize and Beyond
- 2. Buchanan8217;s Ideas
- Introduction
- The Individualist Postulate
- The Problems of Anarchy
- Rights
- Political Agreement and Constitutional Choice: Enter the State
- Public Goods, the Productive State and Non-Unanimous Decisions
- Constitutional Democracy: Procedural not Substantive
- The Problems of Non-Contractarian Politics: Re-Entering Anarchy
- Individual preferences and 8216;democratic8217; outcomes
- Exploitation or the imposition of external costs
- Rent-seeking
- The state: the threat of Leviathan
- Constitutionalism: Solving the Problems of Politics
- A fiscal constitution
- Qualified majority decision-making
- Federalism
- Constitutional revolution
- Conclusion
- 3. The Reception and Influence of Buchanan8217;s Work
- Introduction
- The Intellectual Impact and Influence of Public Choice Theory
- The Critics of Buchanan and Public Choice Theory
- Methodological individualism
- Self-interest
- Rationality
- Unanimity
- Power
- The Development of Public Choice as an Academic Community
- 4. The Continuing and Future Relevance of Buchanan8217;s Ideas
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.