All Posts Tagged With: "James M. Buchanan"
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A student recently asked me to recommend books that will help her to better understand the economy and society. I love such questions because they give me the opportunity to recall books that were especially important in my own intellectual development, and to reflect anew on their messages. So here I list the ten non [...]
1Apr2006 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedPolitics By Principle, Not Interest: Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy by James M. Buchanan and Roger D. Congleton
Cambridge University Press • 1998 • 191 pages • $49.95 William Peterson, a Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Said Plato: “Morality determines politics.” Which raises a question 2,500 years later for Nobel laureate James Buchanan and fellow economist Roger Congleton: Does politics [...]
1Jan1999 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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