1. Social economy : some preliminaries on scope and method -- 2. Society, property, and human action -- 3. Economizing, calculation, and purposive action -- 4. Planning, production, and entrepreneurial action -- 5. Markets and prices as emergent patterns of human interaction -- 6. Competition...

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...

This is a preliminary draft of the first of what will be eight chapters in a book titled Politics as a Peculiar Business: Public Choice in a System of Entangled Political Economy. This chapter explores some issues regarding the scholarly location of what is often described as the Virginia...