Part 1. Political Economy and Constitutional Order -- 1. The Domain of Constitutional Political Economy -- 2. On the Structure of an Economy: A Reemphasis of some Classical Foundations -- 3. The Economy as a Constitutional Order -- 4. The Justification of the Compound Republic: A Retrospective...

In this note, three major areas of Buchanan's research are briefly described: (1) The ideas of Knut Wicksell on Buchanan's work, (2) constitutional economics and the veil of ignorance, and (3) the role of government and/or the power to tax. It is shown that these three areas had a major...