What should public service economists do?
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, Public Choice, public economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Good summary
25 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, Robert E. Lucas, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm
James Buchanan on economic advisors as establishment intellectuals
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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
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
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: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Brennan and Buchanan explain modern monetary theory in The Power to Tax (1980)
03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (1/2)
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Friedrich von Hayek and James Buchanan Part I
15 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, F.A. Hayek, James Buchanan, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
Nancy MacLean: The GOP’s Long Game |also #OTD 3rd US libertarian elected (a town mayor)
05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
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: conspiracy theories, regressive left
James Buchanan couldn’t lead a political revolution because he was such a dry writer and boring speaker.
Deirdre McCloskey summarises Rawls and Nozick on unequal incomes
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, Gordon Tullock, growth miracles, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: creative destruction, Deirdre McCloskey, industrial revolution, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%, veil of ignorance, veil of uncertainty
Source: Review of Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limit of Markets by Deirdre McCloskey August 1, 2012. Shorter version published in the Claremont Review of Books XII(4), Fall 2012 via Deirdre McCloskey: editorials.
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