James M. Buchanan Knihy

James Buchanan, profesor ekonómie, nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za ekonómiu (1986) je autor, ktorého práce zásadne formovali spôsob myslenia mnohých predstaviteľov liberálne orientovaných politických zoskupení. Jeho kniha Hranice slobody pozoruhodným spôsobom uplatňuje metódy sociálnej filozofie - pri skúmaní problému slobody jednotlivca, ktorá môže byť zaručená iba obmedzeniami tejto slobody zo strany štátu. Je to problém, ktorý je v súčasnosti naliehavý nielen v teoretickej oblasti, ale aj praktickej politike. Systematickou analýzou odkrýva Buchanan zúludnosti a zložitosti vzťahu medzi občanom a štátom.

Autor, James M. Buchanan, profesor ekonomie na George Mason University a zakladatel Centra pro studium veřejné volby, získal mezinárodní uznání a Nobelovu cenu za ekonomii za svou průkopnickou práci v oblasti teorie veřejné volby. Tato kniha je považována za jeho největší přínos teorii veřejné ekonomie. Význam zkoumání teorie veřejné volby roste, protože více než třetina produkce v tržně orientovaných ekonomikách je určena pro společenskou spotřebu. V době vzniku textu se studia veřejných financí soustředila na vliv státního sektoru na chování jednotlivců a firem. Buchanan však otevřel novou oblast zkoumáním vlivu těchto institucí na politické chování jednotlivců v demokratickém systému. Aplikoval standardní ekonomické teorie na modelování politického chování, včetně rozhodování o daních a veřejných výdajích. Témata jako rozdělování finančních prostředků, zdanění, státní dluh a nevyrovnané rozpočty jsou klíčová pro porozumění fungování veřejného sektoru. Kniha významně obohacuje odbornou ekonomickou literaturu v českém kontextu a stane se cenným přínosem pro odborníky, studenty, představitele státní správy a širokou veřejnost, kteří chtějí lépe porozumět veřejnému sektoru.

Politika očima ekonoma je výběr několika významných statí Jamese Buchanana: The Limits of Liberty vydané The University of Chicago roku 1975, Cost and Choice vydané The Markham Publishing Company roku 1969 a článku Positive Economics, Welfare Economics, and Political Economy z roku 1959. Tyto práce představují zřejmě jeho nejvýznamnější příspěvky k teorii veřejné volby.

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A collection of 35 journal and book articles previously published 1960-1997. Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume presents a representative sampling of James M. Buchanans lengthy foreword highlights some of the major philosophical currents with which Buchanan is engaged in the papers collected in this volume. His introduction to these philosophies provides an excellent grounding for economists and all readers who may not be familiar with the philosophical and fundamental issues Buchanan undertakes. James M. Buchanan is an eminent economist who won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 and is considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty in the twentieth century. The entire series will include: Volume 1: The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty Volume 2: Public Principles of Public Debt Volume 3: The Calculus of Consent Volume 4: Public Finance in Democratic Process Volume 5: The Demand and Supply of Public Goods Volume 6: Cost and Choice Volume 7: The Limits of Liberty Volume 8: Democracy in Deficit Volume 9: The Power to Tax Volume 10: The Reason of Rules Volume 11: Politics by Principle, Not Interest Volume 12: Economic Inquiry and Its Logic Volume 13: Politics as Public Choice Volume 14: Debt and Taxes Volume 15: Externalities and Public Expenditure Theory Volume 16: Choice, Contract, and Constitutions Volume 17: Moral Science and Moral Order Volume 18: Federalism, Liberty, and the Law Volume 19: Ideas, Persons, and Events Volume 20: Indexes

"As he usually does, Professor Buchanan has produced an interesting and provocative piece of work. [ Cost and Choice ] starts off as an essay in the history of cost theory; the central ideas of the book are traced to Davenport and Knight in the United States, and to a series of distinguished writers associated at various times with the London School of Economics. The author emerges from this discussion with what can be described as the ultimate in subjectivist cost doctrines. . . . Economists should learn the lessons offered to us in this little book—and learn them well. It can save them from serious errors."—William J. Baumol, Journal of Economic Literature

The thirty-one papers presented in this volume offer scholars and general readers alike a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest economists of the modern era. Many of Buchanan's most important essays are gathered in this inaugural volume of the twenty-volume series from Liberty Fund of his Collected Works. The editors have focused on papers that Buchanan has written without collaboration and which present Buchanan's earlier, classic statements on crucial subjects rather than his subsequent elaborations which appear in later volumes in the series. Included, too, is Buchanan's Nobel address, "The Constitution of Economic Policy," and the text of the Nobel Committee's press release explaining why Buchanan was awarded the prize for Economics in 1986. The volume also includes Buchanan's autobiographical essay, "Better Than Plowing," in which he gives not only a brief account of his life, but also his own assessment of what is important, distinctive, and enduring in his work. The foreword by the three series editors will be valuable to all readers who wish to engage the challenging but epochal writings of the father of modern public choice theory. --

James M. Buchanan, a Nobel laureate and key figure in public choice theory, significantly influenced the intersection of economics and politics. An innovative academic, he established research centers and graduate programs throughout his career, notably at George Mason University. Following his death in 2013, his contributions were preserved in the James M. Buchanan Papers, a formal archive that highlights his impact on social science and his enduring intellectual legacy.

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As diverse as the papers presented in this volume may seem at first glance, all of them touch on two characteristic themes of James Buchanan's work: the respect for individual sovereignty and the threat of monopoly power on the rights of the individual. In his foreword, Hartmut Kliemt says, "As opposed to more extreme and more utopian libertarians, [Buchanan] well understands that in our world it takes a state to defend the individual from the state. Buchanan, therefore, is not an anarchist but, rather, what may be called a 'reluctant anarchist' who accepts both that the state is the greatest threat to individual sovereignty and that without some statelike monopoly, individual sovereignty cannot be protected." The twenty-six essays included in Federalism, Liberty, and the Law are grouped into these categories: The Analytics of Federalism Federalism and Freedom Liberty, Man, and the State The Constitution of Markets Economists, Efficiency, and the Law Law, Money, and Crime The central issue that unites the pieces in this volume is monopoly power and its control. As a libertarian, Buchanan sees government as the greatest threat--and also the greatest protector--of individual liberties. James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was an eminent economist who won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 and was considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty in the twentieth century.

Constitutional political economy is the theme of the papers collected in this volume. This entire area of contemporary economic thought is a legacy of James M Buchanan. In outlining the importance of this volume to the contemporary study of economics and to the work of James M Buchanan, Robert D Tollison states in his foreword, "Buchanan literally founded the field of constitutional political economy... (His) insistence on the importance of rules was an important innovation in economics, and, over the past thirty years or so, the analytical and empirical relevance of Buchanan's constitutional perspective has become apparent." The thirty-five papers represented in this volume are grouped into these major subject categories: foundational issues; the method of constitutional economics; incentives and constitutional choice; constitutional order; market order; distributional issues; fiscal and monetary constitutions; reform. For Buchanan, his work in constitutional political economy is just the first step. He is concerned with inducing economists and other scholars to take the constitutional problem seriously. As they do, says Robert D Tollison, "the face of modern economics will be changed."

James Buchanan was born in Scotland in 1804 and ordained in 1827 in the Church of Scotland. In 1828 he commenced a very successful ministry at North Leith where he gained a great reputation as an earnest, eloquent, evangelical preacher. In 1845 he was appointed to the Chair of Apologetics at New College, Edinburgh, and in 1847 he succeeded Chalmers as Professor of Systematic Theology. He retired in 1868 and died two years later.

Public-goods theory constituted a major element in James M. Buchanan's research agenda throughout the 1960s. The Demand and Supply of Public Goods is a major part of that work. At the time that Buchanan was elaborating on his theories of public goods, the prevailing trend in public economics was the emergence of public-expenditure theory, which attempted to form a comprehensive theory of the state around the notion of market failure. The Demand and Supply of Public Goods established Buchanan's broad purpose of explicitly comparing market performance with political performance. As such, the book is an important part of Buchanan's contractarian theory of the "productive state." Conceived originally as a series of lectures given at Cambridge University in 1961 and 1962, The Demand and Supply of Public Goods is written for students, but is in no way a textbook of dry pedagogy. Instead, as Geoffrey Brennan writes in the foreword, "What Buchanan provides here is a clear statement of the contractarian approach to public goods problems, very much in the 'voluntary exchange' tradition of Wicksell and Lindhal." James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was an eminent economist who won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 and was considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty in the twentieth century.

A collection of thirty-four essays and shorter works by the author, that are broken down into categorical groupings: general approach; public choice and its critics; voters; voting models; rent seeking; regulation; public choice and public expenditures.

Presents a collection of the author's most representative works in economic method and analysis. This book contains some of the author's most often cited works on methodology, including papers reflecting his emphasis on the subjective nature of opportunity costs and the implications of this subjectivity for economic analysis.

Public Principles of Public Debt is one of James M. Buchanan’s most important and influential books. The radical idea he conceived was that our reliance on public debt has amassed a sort of orthodoxy that is commonly―and needlessly―assumed by taxpayers, by politicians, and by economists themselves. Buchanan dismisses the nearly universal belief (which continues to this day) that the burden of debt is borne by the current generation, and he argues persuasively that public debt is shouldered in large part by generations still to come. Written in 1958, this book represents Buchanan’s first published monograph, and its publication met with much controversy, confusion, and speculation in the economic community. But the book also added to Buchanan’s rising stature in the early part of his career as a brilliant and original thinker. The arguments Buchanan lays out in this book had a considerable impact on much of his later work. Buchanan’s object here is to establish a set of analytical claims about debt incidence. Current anxieties over implicit Social Security debt are clear indications of the rightness of Buchanan’s then-revolutionary theory. James M. Buchanan (1919–2013) was an eminent economist who won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 and was considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty in the twentieth century.

Democracy in Deficit represents a significant early effort to integrate public-choice analysis into macroeconomic theory and policy. Robert D. Tollison notes in the foreword that the book's main objective was to scrutinize Keynesian economics through the lens of public-choice theory, revealing a tendency toward deficits driven by political self-interest. This work laid the groundwork for contemporary studies on political business cycles and the role of public-choice considerations in macroeconomic discourse. Buchanan's influential ideas have shifted modern theorists away from the previously dominant Keynesian perspective, emphasizing the importance of fiscal and monetary rules for sustainable policy. The book advocates for a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution and promotes monetary rules over central bank discretion. Co-authored with Richard Wagner, the text maintains focus and avoids polemics, aligning with its core purpose of applying public-choice theory. James M. Buchanan, a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, is celebrated as a leading scholar of liberty in the twentieth century. This work is part of a comprehensive series exploring various aspects of public choice and economics.

Co-authored by Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, this classic work represents a significant shift in understanding how democracies function. It examines the political organization of a free society through an economic lens, despite the authors' initial discomfort with this approach. They venture into this unfamiliar territory, believing that their insights will yield valuable outcomes. Their primary aim is to analyze the rational individual's decision-making process regarding constitutional choices, focusing on decision-making rules. This perspective is termed “economic individualism.” The authors argue that while economists have extensively studied individual choice in markets, social scientists have largely overlooked the dynamics of individual decision-making in public sector group actions. Written in the early 1960s, this work has become foundational for the public choice movement, for which Buchanan is renowned. Buchanan, an eminent economist and Nobel laureate, is celebrated as one of the foremost scholars of liberty in the twentieth century. The book is part of a comprehensive series that delves into various aspects of public choice and constitutional economics.

Originally published in 1975, this work significantly elevated James Buchanan's profile among political philosophers, positioning him alongside John Rawls and Robert Nozick as a key figure in contemporary contractarian thought. It is closely linked to Buchanan's earlier work, the Calculus of Consent, yet is considered logically prior, as noted by Hartmut Kliemt in the foreword. Kliemt explains that the text examines the status quo from a Paretian political perspective and explores potential processes for achieving interindividual agreements that transition from natural to political equilibrium. Buchanan articulates a central theme in his preface, emphasizing that societal norms cannot be dictated from above; rather, individuals must employ their intelligence to impose order amidst chaos. He argues that while anarchy may suit ideal individuals, those driven by passion must strive for reasonableness. The author reflects on the foundations of a society where individuals desire freedom yet acknowledge the limitations imposed by social interdependence. Buchanan, a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, is recognized as one of the foremost scholars of liberty in the twentieth century. The series encompasses multiple volumes, each addressing different aspects of constitutional liberty and public finance.

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This book is a reproduction of a historical work, published by Megali, which focuses on making literature accessible to individuals with impaired vision through large print. The initiative highlights the importance of inclusivity in reading, ensuring that classic texts are available to a wider audience.

This reprint preserves the essence of a classic first published in 1857, offering readers a chance to explore its original themes and historical context. The book captures the spirit of its time, reflecting societal norms and challenges of the era. It serves as a valuable resource for those interested in literature's evolution and the cultural backdrop of the 19th century.

Focusing on the life and presidency of James Buchanan, the book delves into his unique status as the only unmarried president and his roots in Pennsylvania. It explores his political struggles, particularly his rivalry with Stephen A. Douglas within the Democratic Party, and his controversial stance on southern secession during a tumultuous pre-Civil War era. Despite his lengthy political career, including significant roles in the Pennsylvania House and Congress, scholars often rank him among the least effective U.S. presidents.

Should government's power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California's Proposition 13 brought this question very sharply into popular focus. Whether the power to tax should be restricted, and if so how, are issues of immediate policy significance. Providing a serious analysis of these issues, the authors of this 1980 book offer an approach to the understanding and evaluation of the fiscal system, one that yields profound implications. The central question becomes: how much 'power to tax' would the citizen voluntarily grant to government as a party to some initial social contract devising a fiscal constitution? Those in office are assumed to exploit the power assigned to them to the maximum possible extent: government is modelled as 'revenue-maximizing Leviathan'. Armed with such a model, the authors proceed to trace out the restrictions on the power to tax that might be expected to emerge from the citizen's constitutional deliberations.