Buchanan's tensions : reexamining the political economy and philosophy of James M. Buchanan

Buchanan's liberal theory of political economy : a valiant but failed effort to square the circle / Richard E. Wagner -- Buchanan on ethics and self-interest in politics : a contradiction or reconciliation? / Roger D. Congleton -- Constitutional hopes and post-constitutional fears : the role of rational construction in skeptical public choice / Peter J. Boettke and Jayme S. Lemke -- Can consent limit liberty? : an analysis of Buchanan's classical liberal contractarianism / Randall G. Holcombe -- Unreasonableness and heterogeneity in Buchanan's constitutional project / Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr -- It can't be rational choice all the way down : comprehensive hobbesianism and the origins of the moral order / Gerald Gaus -- The protective state : a grave threat to liberty / Christopher J. Coyne -- Limits on the application of motivational homogeneity in the work of Buchanan and the Virginia School / David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart -- Contributors -- Index