ISBN: 3540419705
TITLE: Method and Morals in Constitutional Economics
AUTHOR: Brennan et al.
TOC:

Preface
GEOFFREY BRENNAN / HARTMUT KLIEMT / ROBERT D. TOLLISON V
A Poem
PETER BERNHOLZ VII
To Jim at Eighty
ALLAN H. MELTZER IX
Table of Contents XI
Part I
Buchanan and Public Choice in Historical Perspective
1. Onwards and Upwards - James Buchanan at 80
GEOFFREY BRENNAN 3
2. Buchanan and the Virginia School
ROGER D. CONGLETON 23
3. A Young Man of Eighty
HARTMUT KLIEMT 39
4. Buchanan-as-Artist: A Retrospective
WILLIAM BREIT 44
Part II
Methodological Aspects of Buchanan's Work
5. Science and the Social Order
HANS ALBERT 53
6. A Creative Theorist in His Workshop: James M. Buchanan as a Positive Economist
WILLIAM F SHUGHART / ROBERT D. TOLLISON 66
7. Buchanan and Shackle on Cost, Choice and Subjective Economics
STEPHEN C. LITTLECHILD 78
8. The Art of the State, State of the Art
HARTMUT KLIEMT 98
9. Buchanan as a Conservative
DAVID REISMAN 103
10. Buchanan and Wiseman
ALAN HAMLIN 109
11. Notes on Buchanan on Methodological Individualism
GEOFFREY BRENNAN 117
Part III
Constitutional Economics
12. The Importance of Uncertainty in a Two-Stage Theory of Constitutions
DENNIS C. MUELLER 133
13. The Constitutional Stage Revisited
ANTNIO S. PINTOBARBOSA 173
14. Evolution and Learning in Collective Decision Making
JOSE CASAS-PARDO / JUAN D. MONTORO-PONS / MIGUEL PUCHADES-NAVARRO 179
15. Revisiting "The Nobel Lie": An Argument for Constitutional constraints
JEFF R. CLARK AND DWIGHT R. LEE 196
16. The Calculus of Dissent: Constitutional Completion and Public Goods
GIUSEPPE EUSEPI 213
17. Pareto Optimality and the Rule of Law
NOEL B. REYNOLDS 237
18. An Invisible Hand Theorem for Collectivists
EARL A. THOMPSON 253
Part IV
Public Choice and Public Policy
19. Does Abstention Matter?
ROGER L. FAITH 267
20. The Transformation of Economic Systems
RUDOLF RICHTER 275
21. Will the Europeans Seize Their "Once-in-History Opportunity"? - Comments on James M. Buchanan's Essay "Europe's Constitutional Opportunity"
CHRISTIAN WATRIN 313
22. The Role of a New International Monetary Institution after the EMU and after the Asian Crises: Some Preliminary Ideas Using Constitutional Economics
FRIEDRICH SCHNEIDER 325
23. On Conditions Favouring the Introduction and Maintenance of Stable Monetary Regimes and of Free Constitutions
PETER BERNHOLZ 351
24. Merit Goods from a Constitutional Perspective
CHRISTIAN MLLER / MANFRED TIETZEL 375
25. James Buchanan as a Health Economist
MARK V. PAULY 401
Part V
The Moral Dimension
26. Morality and the Political Process
KENNETHGREENE / PHILLIP NELSON 413
27. Economic Morality as a Competitive Asset
HERBERT GIERSCH 444
28. To Help or Not to Help: The Samaritan's Dilemma Revisited
DIETER SCHMIDTCHEN 470
29. Constitutional Economics and Ethics - On the Relation Between Self-Interest and Morality
VIKTOR J. VANBERG 485
30. Contingencies, the Limits of Systems, and the Morality of the Market
PETER KOSLOWSKI 504
Part VI
Buchanan as Teacher and Colleague
31. Mr. Buchanan - Some Episodes from the Life of a University of Virginia Graduate Student in the Early 1960s
CHARLES R. PLOTT 529
32. James McGill Buchanani A Classic Original Thinker
CHARLES J GOETZ 536
33. Learning from the Master: A Student Evaluation of Professor Buchanan
RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE 538
34. James M. Buchanan Outside the Classroom: A Former Student's Perspective
DAVID N. LABAND 546
35. Blacksburg, Virginia: Summer, 1977
ROBERT SUGDEN. 549
36. A Birthday Reminiscence
KAREN I. VAUGHN 552
37. First Encounters with James Buchanan's Scholarship: A Personal Reminiscence
EDWIN G. WEST 555
38. James Buchanan's Influence: A Personal View
LELAND B. YEAGER 559
39. 'Is GMU Big Enough for Buchanan?'
WADE J. GILLEY 564
About the Editors 569
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