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Enlightenment Economics and the Framing of the U.S. Constitution

Lerner, Renee Lettow - 2013

Some scholars have argued that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution did not have a common set of views on economics, or that the Constitution, except perhaps in isolated clauses, does not reflect any specific economic views. The principal Framers did, in fact, share a basic set of economic...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2023

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that people are plagued by irrational biases and...

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The Self-Organizing Society : The Role of Institutions

Stewart, John - 2016

Is it possible to constrain a human society in such a way that self-organization will thereafter tend to produce outcomes that advance the goals of the society? Such a society would be self-organizing in the sense that individuals who pursue only their own interests would none-the-less act in...

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

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The economic approach to political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

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The Demand for Censorship

Depken, Craig A. - 2007

Censorship is the moral or legislative process by which society "agrees" to limit what an individual can do, say, think, or see. The proliferation of censorship movements of all kinds has heretofore been relatively ignored by economists. In this study, a conceptual model is developed describing...

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James Buchanan's Liberal Theory of Political Economy : A Valiant But Failed Effort to Square the Circle

Wagner, Richard E. - 2017

Maynard Keynes who asserted much the same thing in his Preface to the General Theory …

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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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