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James Buchanan on the Use of Science
"What a science does, or should do, is simply to allow the average man, through professional specialization, to command the
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Bootleggers, Baptists and ballots
Yandle (Regulation 7(3):12–16, 1983) proposed a “bootleggers and Baptists” framework to explain political coalition formation
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Is social capital underproduced?
Is social capital likely to be underproduced without state action? Where previous analysts have typically argued that social
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The Essential James Buchanan
James (“Jim”) McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), surely seemed an unlikely prospect for winning a Nobel Prize in Economics when he was
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Public choice and public health
Public choice scholars have attended only modestly to issues in public health. We expect that to change rapidly given the Covid
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Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.: Openness to creative destruction: sustaining innovative dynamism
Why are some countries rich and others poor? This question has driven economic science since its founding. The answers provided
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Giuseppe Eusepi: a courageous and cheerful countenance for the ages
Giuseppe Eusepi died at age 71 in Rome on the fourth of October 2020. For those of you who knew Giuseppe and who experienced his
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James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics
Perhaps the most important element of James Buchanan’s contribution to constitutional economics is his differentiation between
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The interest group origins of the Bank of France
This paper contrasts different interpretations of the creation of the Bank of France. I argue that the Bank of France was the
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Fifty Years of "Rent Seeking": A Q&A with Matthew Mitchell
Just over five decades ago, the late economist Gordon Tullock published a paper titled “The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies
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Why Trump’s Politics Will Outlast Him
President Trump has certainly left his mark on American politics. In an opinion for Bloomberg, Tyler Cowen argues that at least
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Panel Discussion | Thirty Years After the Nobel: James Buchanan's Virginia Political Economy
Thirty years ago, in October 1986, James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. On October 6, 2016, the Hayek
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Keynote Lecture | Thirty Years After the Nobel: James Buchanan's Virginia Political Economy
Thirty years ago, in October 1986, James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. On October 6, 2016, the Hayek
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Free Thoughts Podcast: Richard E. Wagner Discusses 'Politics as a Peculiar Business'
Is an economy like a machine or a tropical rainforest? Is it more like a mechanical device that can be maintained by an
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Mainline Economics
This new book includes six Nobel lectures in the mainline tradition of economic thought. The Nobel Laureates featured in this volume—F. A. Hayek, James M. Buchanan, Ronald H. Coase, Douglass C. North, Vernon L. Smith, and Elinor C. Ostrom—are the ones who have most consistently sought to advance the insights found in Adam Smith onward.
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Learning Across Disciplines and Perspectives
In this video, F. A. Hayek Program Senior Fellow Jayme Lemke concludes her interview series exploring the core ideas and methods
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Learning Across Disciplines and Perspectives with Peter Boettke and Jayme Lemke
Hayek Program Senior Fellow Jayme Lemke sat down with Hayek Program Director Peter Boettke to discuss the commonalities among
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Empire State of Mind
What kind of mindset does the proactive, interventionist foreign policy of the U.S. government require? Eight characteristics
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The Virginia School of Political Economy with Don Boudreaux and Jayme Lemke
Hayek Program Senior Fellow Jayme Lemke sat down with Senior Fellow Donald Boudreaux to discuss the Virginia School of Political
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Virginia School of Political Economy I: An Introduction to Public Choice
Hayek Program Senior Fellow Jayme Lemke recently shared a series of conversations with her colleagues about the core ideas and
