This paper is an exercise in conceptual clarification. Its purpose is to explore the contribution that constitutional economics can make to the theory of democracy. Constitutional economics as the economics of rules is concerned with the study of how the choice of rules in the social, economic...

Pt. 1, Critique of sovereignty. Singularity or the dignity of individuation ; Exception and critique ; Bataille's special use of the concept of sovereignty -- Pt. 2, Sovereignty and labor. Ax and fire : knowledge production and the superexploitation of contingent academic labor ; Sovereign,...