Introduction / Paul Dragos Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, Stefanie Haeffele -- Explorations and extensions -- Rawls, Buchanan, and the search for a better social contract / Brian Kogelmann -- Horses & carts and justice & rules : getting the order right / Benjamin Johnson -- The problem of...

1. Contemporary Democracy and the Prospect for Fiscal Control: Initial thoughts about and Final Reactions to the Conference -- 2. Starving the Leviathan: Balanced Budget Prescriptions Before Keynes -- Comments -- 3. The Decline of the Budget-Balancing Doctrine or How the Good Guys Finally Lost...

Peter Bauer (Lord Bauer) was an economist of considerable influence, particularly on the prevailing wisdom about the value of foreign aid ('government-to-government transfers', as he preferred to call it). Shortly before his death in May 2002, he received the prestigious first award of the...