Economics

Constitutions and Contracts in Buchanan’s “The Limits of Liberty”

ABSTRACT

This three-session conference explored Buchanan’s The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan. His project in this volume was “to explain how ‘law,’ ‘the right of property,’ and ‘rules for behavior,’” might emerge from the non-idealistic, self-interested behavior of men.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 7, The Limits of Liberty––Between Anarchy and Leviathan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000.