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Fiscal Crisis as Failure of Progressivist Democracy
Wagner, Richard E. - 2015
it resides in the morphing of a constitutional system of limited democracy into one of progressivist or oligarchic … democracy. The clear and present danger is that the present crisis will end up strengthening the conservative forces of … progressivist democracy and its program of continually extending the reach of politics into society. The avoidance of that danger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136830
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Public Finance and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs
Wagner, Richard E. - 2022
Public finance entails two distinct research programs with incongruent hard cores. A scholar can work within both programs but not at the same instant because of that incongruity. One program sets public finance inside welfare economics. It received its canonical expression from Francis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083639
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Arrogance and Humility in the Governance of Human Interaction : A Reflection on Roger Koppl's Expert Failure
Wagner, Richard E. - 2018
Prevailing ideology holds that democracy is a system of government where people govern themselves. This ideology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911754
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Statogenic Climate Change? Julian Simon and Institutions
Geloso, Vincent - 2021
.e. man-made) to claiming that climate change is “statogenic” (i.e. government-made) …
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Establishing a New Order : The Growth of the State and the Decline of Witch Trials in France
Johnson, Noel D. - 2012
The growth of the 17th century French state contributed to the establishment to a more regular, and even liberal legal order. Higher fiscal demands on the state led to a process of legal standardization that extended the rule of law. We use data on witch trials and taxation covering twenty-one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113949
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Legal Centralization and the Birth of the Secular State
Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between the historical process of legal centralization and increased religious toleration by the state. We develop a model in which legal centralization leads to the criminalization of the religious beliefs of a large proportion of the population. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166421
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The Social Construction of Theoretical Landscapes : Some Economics of Economic Theories
Wagner, Richard E. - 2012
Economic theory emerges through interaction among interested participants, with the content of those theories being a product of spontaneous ordering and not scientific planning. At any moment, it is reasonable to expect various theoretical formulations to be in play, some typically receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167613
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The Protective State : A Grave Threat to Liberty
Coyne, Christopher J. - 2018
James Buchanan's protective state emerges at the constitutional level and protects the core rights of citizens via internal security, contract enforcement, and defense against external threats. This paper focuses on the potential for the protective state to produce anti-liberty outcomes. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935037
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Empire State of Mind : The Illiberal Foundations of Liberal Hegemony
Coyne, Christopher J. - 2016
This paper explores the interventionist mindset required for success under the U.S. government's foreign policy … mentality is incentivized by government bureaus which reward those who successfully implement the government's foreign policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002491