The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked, and to illustrate the key areas of overlap. The contributors are well-known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines, who have been invited both to...

In this paper, we analyze the controversy that took place between Blum and Kalven, and Calabresi around rationality or, more broadly, how individuals behave. We analyze how their respective conception regarding this specific aspect was included in their analyses about what economics could say...

We present a short history of the Virginia School of Political Economy in its institutional settings of University of Virginia (UVA), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech (VPI), and George Mason University (GMU). We discuss the original research and educational...

This article introduces Buchanan's comment on Tiebout's "A Pure Theory of Local Public Expenditures". It helps us to understand the nature of the relationship between Buchanan and Tiebout. Usually, it is claimed that Buchanan modeled Tiebout's insights, that there exists a Buchanan-Tiebout...

The purpose of this note is to discuss libertarian paternalism from the perspective of the concept of “freedom of choice”. For libertarian paternalists, freedom remains defined as it is defined by neo-classical economists and “consent” to the conditions of choice is never envisaged as an...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the way economists interested in social and economic evolution cite, mention or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude of economists towards Darwin's theory of social evolution - an issue he considered as central to his theory. We show that economists...