Since anarchy is not viable, limited government is the best that the realistic libertarian can hope for. But limited government will itself always be threatened by an inherent tendency to transgress its limits. In modern western societies the regulatory and redistributive welfare state is the...

This paper reconstructs how Buchanan himself answers his question “what should economists do?” The way Buchanan tries to stir a middle course between the extremes of an a priori logic of human action and economic behaviorism is sketched as broadly Kantian. Other than a conventional Kantian,...

Hayek and Buchanan endorsed Böhm's "private law society" as expressive of the ideal of a government of laws, and not of men . But they also acknowledged that among the many, the enforceability of legal custom, adjudication, and legislation must be politically guaranteed by a state. Due to...

This book makes a rational and eloquent case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. It expands upon themes concerned with esteem, self-esteem, emotional bonding between agents, expressive concerns, and moral requirements.

Normensystemen kollektive Güter (oder Übel) bereitzustellen vermag. Kollektive Güter bilden typischerweise Antworten auf Kollektivgut-Probleme. Eine besonders wichtige Klasse solcher Kollektivgut-Probleme entsteht im Rahmen von so genannten "Allmenden" (oder "commons"). In diesem Beitrag...

Relying on the specific example of ultimatum bargaining experiments this paper explores the possible role of empirical knowledge of behavioural "norm(ative) facts" within the search for (W)RE – (Wide) Reflective Equilibria on normative issues. Assuming that "pro-social" behaviour...