1. Public choice and the Virginia tradition of political economy -- 2. Alternative paths for a theory of political economy -- 3. Systems theory and parts-to-whole relationships -- 4. The logic of economizing action : universal form and particular practice -- 5. Reason, sentiment, and electoral...

Contrasting architectonics for a theory of public finance -- Property, state and public finance -- State and market : a two-forum societal architecture -- Political entrepreneurship within the ecology of enterprises -- The economic organization of political enterprises -- Revenue extraction :...

Political economy is a field of study where theorists typically treat polities and markets as separate orders of activity within society. Moreover, the standard mode of analysis treats those entities as existing in states of equilibrium. In contrast, this essay treats polities and markets as...