 | The Neoliberal Revolution In Eastern Europe: Economic Ideas in the Transition from Communism
March 13, 2009
Books
Anthony J. Evans, Paul Dragos Aligica |
| Very few studies have ventured to explore the shift in economic ideas that were such a critical factor in shaping and understanding the East European transition process. Paul Dragos Aligica and Anthony J. Evans have seized upon the potential that this crucial case has to illuminate the larger phenomenon of diffusion and adoption of economic ideas.
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 | Democracy and the Economy: An Analysis of Buchanan's Views on Political Psychology 
September 9, 2008
Working Papers
Alejandra Salinas |
| Buchanan´s notion of “parental socialism” refers to the attitude of many persons who are “afraid to be free” and do not want to face "responsibility for their own actions". His diagnosis is that this behavioral fact triggers the demand for a Welfare State, thus extending collective activities over individual liberties. Salinas claims that this psychological assumption is in tension with Buchanan´s public choice perspective: if what people pursue is wealth maximization, they will try to partially minimize the risks and costs linked to that objective by shifting the burden of welfare provision onto the State.
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 | The Political Economy of Post-Katrina Recovery: Public-Choice Style Critiques from the Ninth Ward, New Orleans
August 29, 2008
Working Papers
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr |
| This paper provides an account of the political economy critique that residents and other stakeholders in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward communities hold of the post-Katrina policy environment.
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| Do Markets Need Government?
August 26, 2008
Books
Peter Leeson |
| The long-standing existence of vibrant markets under conditions of real or quasi-statelessness suggests that private ‘rules of the game’ must be possible without government. This chapter examines these rules, how they emerge, and how they are enforced.
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| Foreign Intervention and Global Public Bads
July 29, 2008
Working Papers
Christopher Coyne, Matt E. Ryan |
| A growing literature focuses on the “global public goods” generated by foreign interventions. Global public goods have traditional public good characteristics, but their benefits extend across societies and regions. Coyne and Ryan analyze how well-intentioned foreign interventions to provide global public goods can also result in global public bads.
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| Amateur Public Choice and Regime Uncertainty in Post-Katrina New Orleans
April 16, 2008
Working Papers
Adam Martin |
| This paper argues that government involvement in the rebuilding process, far from alleviating the problems of uncertainty, exacerbates them. In order for government policy to be effective in this regard, residents would have to treat the determination of policy as exogenous to their mental models.
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| The Politics of Bureaucracy and the Failure of Post-War Reconstruction
April 1, 2008
Journal Articles
Christopher Coyne |
| In this paper, Chris Coyne argues that Tullock’s analysis of bureaucracy is as relevant as ever. To support this claim, the author focuses on U.S.-led reconstruction efforts which attempt to export liberal democracy via military occupation.
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| Gordon Tullock's Contribution to Spontaneous Order Studies
January 1, 2008
Journal Articles
Peter Boettke |
| Introductory essay written on the occasion of Professor Tullock's reception of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
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| Maximizing Behavior and Market Forces: The Microfoundations of Spontaneous Order Theorizing in Gordon Tullock’s Contributions to Smithian Political Economy
January 1, 2008
Journal Articles
Peter Boettke |
| This paper explores the microfoundations of Gordon Tullock’s contributions to political economy and argues that his approach is consistent with the “invisible hand” theorizing of Adam Smith.
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| The Battle of Ideas: Economics and the Struggle for a Better World
August 7, 2007
Speeches and Presentations
Peter Boettke |
| This paper is Peter J. Boettke's speech at the twelfth Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture in New Zealand. Sir Ronald Trotter was the first chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, who was knighted in 1985 for services to business. The Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture was instituted in 1995 by the New Zealand Business Roundtable to mark Sir Ronald Trotter’s many contributions to public affairs in New Zealand. It is given annually by a distinguished international speaker on a major topic of public policy. |
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