James Buchanan. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Reisman.
• Authors: Reisman, David A
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Individuals and Agreements -- 2.1. The Individual -- 2.2. The Truth Judgment -- 2.3. Truth as Consensus -- 2.4. Economic Psychology -- 2.5. The Agreement -- 3. Rules without Regulators -- 3.1. The Social Individual -- 3.2. Non-Conflictual Conventions -- 3.3. Group Size: Large and Small -- 3.4. Work and Saving: Ethics as an External Benefit -- 4. Social Justice: Buchanan and Rawls -- 4.1. Justice as Consent -- 4.2. Buchanan and Rawls -- 4.3. The First Principle -- 4.4. The Second Principle -- 5. Social Evolution: Buchanan and Hayek -- 5.1. Market as Discovery -- 5.2. Conventions and Heuristics -- 5.3. The Visible Hand -- 6. Acts and Rules -- 6.1. Conservatives and Libertarians -- 6.2. Buchanan as an Anarchist -- 6.3. When East went West -- 7. Constitutional Rules -- 7.1. The Calculus of Consent -- 7.2. The Original Contract -- 7.3. Unanimity of Consent -- 7.4. Unanimity and Unknowledge -- 7.5. Collective Regulation: The Citizen and the State -- 7.6. Updating the Constitution -- 8. Operational Rules -- 8.1. Percentages and Externalities -- 8.2. The Tyranny of the Majority -- 8.3. Pareto Optimality -- 9. The Microeconomics of Consent -- 9.1. Vote-Selling -- 9.2. Vote-Trading -- 10. Moral Anarchy -- 10.1. Things Fall Apart -- 10.2. External Costs -- 10.3. Politicians -- 10.4. Bureaucrats -- 11. Keynesian Ethics -- 11.1. Democracy without Consultation -- 11.2. The Politics of the Deficit -- 11.3. Debt: Objective and Subjective -- 11.4. Inflation -- 11.5. Macroeconomic Management -- 12. Ethics as Unknowledge -- 12.1. Agreement is All -- 12.2. The Fear Motive -- 13. Economics as Unknowledge -- 13.1. The Mission of the Economist -- 13.2. The Subjectivist Heritage -- 13.3. Buchanan as a Subjectivist -- 14. Macroeconomic Policy -- 14.1. Fiscal Policy -- 14.2. Monetary Policy -- 15. Microeconomic Policy -- 15.1. The Minimal State -- 15.2. The Protective State -- 15.3. The Productive State -- 15.4. The Transfer State -- 16. Buchanan's Legacy.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 330.092; Economics; Economists -- United States; Economics -- Political aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; Economics -- Political aspects; Economists; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Macroeconomics; Business & Economics -- Economic History; Philosophy -- Social; Political economy; Macroeconomics; Economic history; Social & political philosophy; Management science; Economic theory; Political economy; Macroeconomics; Economic history; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Theory; Economic theory & philosophy; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137427182; 1137427183
• Related ISBNs: 9781137427175; 1137427175
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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