Public Choice, Past and Present : The Legacy of James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock

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Studies in Public Choice ; 28

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Public Choice, Pastand Present; Preface; About the Authors; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Impact of The Calculus of Consent; The Impact on Economic Education; Research: The More Select, the Greater the Neglect; The Political Impact; Is Reversing Government Growth a Reasonable Hope?; The Long-Run Importance of The Calculus of Consent; References; Chapter 2: Institutions and Constitutions: The Economic World of James M. Buchanan; The Subject Matter of Economics; Buchanan's Institutional Approach; The Subjective Nature of Cost; The Calculus of Consent

Buchanan's Constitutional EconomicsBuchanan's Constitutional Methodology; Buchanan as a Teacher; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock; Introduction: Gordon and the Calculus of Consent; Missing Generalizations of the Rent-Seeking Contest Success Function; Revolutionary Pessimism; Is Underappreciation of the Profound a Problem?; References; Chapter 4: Buchanan on Freedom; Apologia; Introduction; Liberty in/Through Society?; The Status of Anarchy; Exchange and Liberty; Unanimity, Majority Rule and Liberty; Constitutional Reform

A Tentative Summing-UpReferences; Chapter 5: Choice Versus Interaction in Public Choice: Discerning the Legacy of The Calculus of Consent; Index Numbers and the Appraisal of Old Texts; The Calculus of Consent : 1962 Versus 2012 as Bases for Appraisal; Contrasting Visions of Political Economy; Constitutional Political Economy; One Final Remark; References; Chapter 6: Constitutional Change: No Escaping Hayek*; References; Chapter 7: The Bioeconomics of Scout Bees Voting-with-the-Wings Using Less-Than-Unanimity Voting Rule: Can Bees Count, Quorum Sense, etc.?*; Introduction

Socioeconomic Organization of a Honeybee Colony as a Firm and as a SuperorganismSwarming and Scout Bees Democratic Voting Process in the Collective Choice of the Best New Nest; Lindauer's (1961) Experimental Findings: Scout Bees Use Consensus/Unanimity Voting Rule; Seeley's Experimental Findings: Quorum-Sensing Rather Than Consensus Voting Rule; How Bees Can Sense a Quorum: Seeley's Hypotheses; Using Buchanan-Tullock's (1962) "Calculus of Consent" Theory to Explain Scout Bees "Voting-with-the-Wings" Collective Choice of a New Nest

Quorum Sensing: The Economics and Bioeconomics of Counting and SubitizingCounting and Numbers; Quorum Sensing: The Bioeconomics of "Subitizing" by Scout Bees; Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock: A Half-Century On; Introduction; The Costs (and Possible Bene fi ts) of Collective Decision-Making; Rent-Seeking and Rent Extraction; The Public-Sector Bureaucracy; Public Budget De fi cits and the Public Debt; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 9: The Politics of Medicine; The Amount of Spending on Health Services; Inequalities in Health Care

The Time Price Versus the Money Price of Care

​Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Impact of The Calculus of Consent -- Chapter 2: Institutions and Constitutions: The Economic World of James M. Buchanan -- Chapter 3: On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock -- Chapter 4: Buchanan on Freedom -- Chapter 5: Choice vs Interaction in Public Choice: Discerning the Legacy of The Calculus of Consent -- Chapter 6: Constitutional Change: No Escaping Hayek -- Chapter 7: The bioeconomics of scout bees voting-with-the wings using less-than-unanimity voting rule: Can bees count, quorum-sense, etc.? -- Chapter 8: James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, A Half-Century On -- Chapter 9: The Politics of Medicine -- Chapter 10: Tullock, Tideman, and the Origins of the Demand-Revealing Process -- Chapter 11: Public Choice and Two of its Founders: An Appreciation -- Chapter 12: Public Choice in the Big Sky -- Chapter 13: The Public Choice Revolution and Principles of Economics Texts -- Chapter 14: The Calculus of Consent, Fifty Years Later: A Personal Tribute to James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock -- Chapter 15: James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock: A Reflection on Two Disruptive Economists -- Chapter 16: Public Choice and Public Life.​.

10.1007/978-1-4614-5909-5 [DOI]

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