Our central aim is to explore the ideas involved in the claim that certain institutional structures economize on virtue and, in particular, to explore the widely held idea that reliance on institutions that economize on virtue may undermine virtue itself. We explore these ideas both by...

The Reason of Rules stands as a key text in the development of Constitutional Political Economy (CPE). While the achievements of the book in further shifting attention towards the constitutionalist perspective and providing a wide ranging discussion of the demand for rules are acknowledged, I...

The following collection of articles focus on the role and status of the idea of the status quo in constitutional economics, and derive from a symposium held in May 2004 in Blacksburg, Virginia. This brief note provides an introduction both to the papers presented and to some of the issues...