Economics

Liberty, Politics, and Economics in the Thought of James Buchanan

ABSTRACT

The colloquium combined two previous conferences on the thought of James Buchanan: "Liberalism that Lasts—Liberty and Responsibility in Buchanan's Economic Philosophy" and "James M. Buchanan's Legacy for Liberty," with readings selected to reflect Buchanan's multidisciplinary approach to the study of social relations.

READING LIST

From Liberty Fund

Politics by Principle, Not Interest

by By James M. Buchanan and Roger D. Congleton
Foreword by Hartmut Kliemt

“Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is ‘politics by interest,’ whether in the form of explicitly discriminatory treatment (rewarding or punishing) of particular groupings of citizens or of some elitist-dirigiste classification of citizens into the deserving or non-deserving on the basis of a…

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Additional Readings

Buchanan, James. “The Soul of Classical Liberalism.” The Independent Review V, no. 1 (Summer 2000): 111-119.

Buchanan, James and Gordon Tullock. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 3: The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1999.

Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 17: Moral Science and Moral Order. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.

Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 1: The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1999.

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

Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 18: Federalism, Liberty, and the Law. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.

Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 16: Choice, Contract, and Constitutions. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.

Buchanan, James M. and Geoffrey Brennan. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 14: Debt and Taxes. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2000.