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Freedom in constitutional contract : perspectives of a political economist
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- Creator
- by James M. Buchanan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [1977]
- ©1977
- Physical Details
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- xii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780890960387, 0890960380
- OCLC
- ocm03360851
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages [301]-306.
- PART 1: Anarchy, Law, and the Invisible Hand -- A Contractarian Perspective on Anarchy -- Law and the Invisible Hand -- Good Economics: Bad Law -- The Libertarian Legitimacy of the State -- Politics and Science -- PART 2: The Structure of Social Contract -- Before Public Choice -- Politics, Property, and the Law -- Student Revolts, Academic Liberalism, and Constitutional Attitudes -- Notes on Justice in Contract -- The Use and Abuse of Contract -- PART 3: The Enforcement Dilemma -- Ethical Rules, Expected Values, and Large Numbers -- The Samaritan's Dilemma -- Political Constraints on Contractual Redistribution -- A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle -- PART 4: Economic Applications -- The Revelance of Pareto Optimality -- A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory -- Democratic Values in Taxation -- Taxation in Fiscal Exchange -- PART 4: Prospects -- Pragmatic Reform and Constitutional Revolution -- Criteria for a Free Society: Definition, Diagnosis, and Prescription