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James Buchanan's Liberal Theory of Political Economy : A Valiant But Failed Effort to Square the Circle

Wagner, Richard E. - 2017

The bulk of James Buchanan's contributions to political economy occupy 20 volumes in Liberty Fund's collection of his works. Reading those works shows both that Buchanan injected new strands of thought into that tradition and that his oeuvre contains points of apparent incoherence. To speak of a...

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Arrogance and Humility in the Governance of Human Interaction : A Reflection on Roger Koppl's Expert Failure

Wagner, Richard E. - 2018

Prevailing ideology holds that democracy is a system of government where people govern themselves. This ideology …

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Politics as a Peculiar Business : Political Economy as Social Agriculture

Wagner, Richard E. - 2014

This is a preliminary draft of the last of the eight chapters in a book titled Politics as a Peculiar Business: Public Choice in a System of Entangled Political Economy. This chapter ventures modestly into hortatory territory, in contrast to the explanatory focus of the preceding chapters. It...

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Politics as a Peculiar Business : Reason, Sentiment, and Electoral Competition

Wagner, Richard E. - 2014

This is a preliminary draft of the fourth of what will be eight chapters in a book titled Politics as a Peculiar Business: Public Choice in a System of Entangled Political Economy. This chapter starts by explaining that a universal feature of competition is its selection for excellence among...

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Different Paths for Institutional Theory : Foundational Dichotomies and Theoretical Framing

Aligica, Paul Dragos; Wagner, Richard E. - 2020

It is common for scholars to describe institutions as “rules of the game.” This description entails a separation between a society and its rules. Social change thus results as societies amend their framing rules. This paper explores that common treatment of institutions as rules with a...

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Public Finance and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs

Wagner, Richard E. - 2022

Public finance entails two distinct research programs with incongruent hard cores. A scholar can work within both programs but not at the same instant because of that incongruity. One program sets public finance inside welfare economics. It received its canonical expression from Francis...

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The Social Construction of Theoretical Landscapes : Some Economics of Economic Theories

Wagner, Richard E. - 2012

Economic theory emerges through interaction among interested participants, with the content of those theories being a product of spontaneous ordering and not scientific planning. At any moment, it is reasonable to expect various theoretical formulations to be in play, some typically receiving...

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Realism, Ideology, and the Convulsions of Democracy

Novak, Mikayla (ed.); Podemska-Mikluch, Marta (ed.); … - 2023

Liberalism Transcend the Distinction Between Reason and Sentiment?-Dave Hebert -- Mr. President, Tear Down This Fence-Jim Caton … Entanglement-Kevin Vallier.-Trust, Polarization, and Affective Looping: The Emotional Decay of Liberalism-Vlad Tarko -- Economic … of liberalism. Bringing together classical liberal scholars with a deep knowledge of public choice ideas, the chapters …

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American democracy and the problem of fiscal deficits

Wagner, Richard E. - In: Public policy review 15 (2019) 2, pp. 199-216

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Politics, taxation, and the rule of law : the power to tax in constitutional perspective

Racheter, Donald P. (ed.); Wagner, Richard E. (contributor) - 2002

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