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Economics : between predictive science and moral philosophy / by James M. Buchanan ; compiled and with a preface by Robert D. Tollison and Viktor J. Vanberg

Author
Buchanan, James M.
Published
College Station [Tex.] : Texas A & M University Press, [1987]
Copyright Date
©1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
What Should Economists Do? -- Positive Economics, Welfare Economics, and Political Economy -- What Should Economists Do? -- Is Economics the Science of Choice? -- The Normative Purpose of Economic "Science": Rediscovery of an Eighteenth Century Method / Geoffrey Brennan -- The Domain of Subjective Economics: Between Predictive Science and Moral Philosophy -- Individual Choices and Social Outcomes -- Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins -- Externality / William Craig Stubblebine -- Public and Private Interaction under Reciprocal Externality / Gordon Tullock -- L.S.E. Cost Theory in Retrospect -- Rights, Efficiency, and Exchange: The Irrelevance of Transactions Cost -- Individual and Collective Choice -- Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets -- Individual Choice in Voting and the Market -- Foreword to The Politics of Bureaucracy -- An Economic Theory of Clubs -- An Individualistic Theory of Political Process -- Notes for an Economic Theory of Socialism -- The Economist as Contractarian -- The Justice of Natural Liberty -- Markets, States, and the Extent of Morals -- Equal Treatment and Reverse Discrimination -- Moral Community, Moral Order, or Moral Anarchy -- The Constitution of Economic Policy -- Fiscal Economics as Political Economy -- "La Scienza delle Finanze": The Italian Tradition in Fiscal Theory -- Fiscal Institutions and Efficiency in Collective Outlay -- Towards a Tax Constitution for Leviathan / Geoffrey Brennan -- The Political Biases of Keynesian Economics / Richard E. Wagner.
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ISBN
0585175241 (electronic bk.)
9780585175249 (electronic bk.)
0890963509 (alk. paper)
9780890963500 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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