What does it cost to vote your conscience? Geoffrey Brennan

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What is Public Choice Theory? Geoffrey Brennan

03 Aug 2022 Leave a comment

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Hayek on Hayek on Rawls

10 May 2022 Leave a comment

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Socialism Does NOT Work | Daniel Hannan | Oxford Union

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What should public service economists do?

05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment

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Good summary

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James Buchanan on economic advisors as establishment intellectuals

21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, James Buchanan, Public Choice

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=92xzxQEACAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

James Buchanan on highly undemocratic Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

19 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, Public Choice

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=92xzxQEACAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture

24 Feb 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ,

Brennan and Buchanan explain modern monetary theory in The Power to Tax (1980)

03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment

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Nordhaus explains climate clubs for @jamespeshaw @mfe_news

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A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (1/2)

17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, Public Choice

Friedrich von Hayek and James Buchanan Part I

15 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, F.A. Hayek, James Buchanan, law and economics, Public Choice Tags:

Hayek and Buchanan: Rawls, Egalitarianism and Social Justice

03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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Nancy MacLean: The GOP’s Long Game |also #OTD 3rd US libertarian elected (a town mayor)

05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: ,

James Buchanan couldn’t lead a political revolution because he was such a dry writer and boring speaker.

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