Author:
Buchanan, James M.
Imprint:Cheltenham, UK ; Lyme, N.H., US : E. Elgar, c1997.
Descriptionix, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:There is a science of economics. - Economics in the post-socialist century. - Public choice after socialism. - Post-socialist political economy. - Economic science and cultural diversity. - Economics as a public science. - Economic theory in the post-revolutionary moment of the 1990s. - Analysis, ideology and the events of 1989. - Socialism is dead but Leviathan lives on. - Tacit presuppositions of political economy: implications for societies in transition. - Asymmetrical reciprocity in market exchange: implications for economies in transition. - Consumption without production: the impossible idyll of socialism. - Structure-induced behaviour in markets and in politics. - The epistemological feasibility of free markets. - Who cares whether the commons are privatized? - The individual as participant in political exchange. - Democracy within constitutional limits. - Property, politics and liberty. - The minimal politics of market order. - Politicized economies in limbo: America, Europe and the world, 1994. - Society and democracy. - Notes on the liberal constitution. - Reform without romance: first principles in political economy. - National politics and competitive federalism: Italy and the constitution of Europe. - Federalism as (1) an ideal political order and (2) an objective for constitutional reform. - Economic freedom and federalism: prospects for the new century.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
