This article studies the few works James Buchanan wrote on education from the end of the 1950s to the early 1970s. These neglected works tell us important things about how Buchanan's ideas on constitutions evolved through time, because they provided Buchanan with the opportunity to apply his...

Richard A. Posner was the most important actor in the transformation from “law and economics” to an “economic analysis of law”. Posner applied Chicago price theory to the analysis of law and legal rules. He not only contributed to the field but also structured it. This is what this...