I Perspectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rent-Seeking Versus Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking Activities -- 3 In Search of Rent-Seeking -- 4 Rents and Rent-Seeking -- II Theoretical Developments -- 5 The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation: A Game-Theoretic Analysis -- 6 Risk-Averse Rent...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Impact of The Calculus of Consent -- Chapter 2: Institutions and Constitutions: The Economic World of James M. Buchanan -- Chapter 3: On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock -- Chapter 4: Buchanan on Freedom -- Chapter 5: Choice vs...

Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom. At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist-socialist ideas, this book presents essays by four political economists evaluating a...

This impressive book brings together four essays, which along with an insightful introduction from Charles Rowley, provide a robust defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern 'civil' society. In the first essay, Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas Uyl discuss the basic approaches and...

Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is presented here as a coherent political and economic...

1. Contemporary Democracy and the Prospect for Fiscal Control: Initial thoughts about and Final Reactions to the Conference -- 2. Starving the Leviathan: Balanced Budget Prescriptions Before Keynes -- Comments -- 3. The Decline of the Budget-Balancing Doctrine or How the Good Guys Finally Lost...