Books Published - Center for Study of Public Choice

Books Published (1983 to 2006)

 

2006

James Buchanan

  • Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy, with Roger D. Congleton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (paperback edition)

Bryan Caplan

  • The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Roger Congleton

  • Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence. Edited with introduction by Roger D. Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

     

  • Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy, with James Buchanan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (paperback edition)

Tyler Cowen

  • Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Alexander Tabarrok

  • Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial, with Eric Helland. Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 2006.

     

2005

James Buchanan

  • Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism. 2005. Cheltenaham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Roger Congleton

  • Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence, with B. Swedenborg, (forthcoming) Cambridge: MIT Press

Tyler Cowen

  • Markets and Culture Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of the Mexican Amate Painters.  2005. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 David Levy

  • The “Vanity of the Philosopher”: From Hierarchy to Equality in Post-Classical Economics, with Sandra Peart, 2005. Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press.

Alexander Tabarrok

  • Two Cheers for Contingent Fees. 2005. Washington, DC: AEI Press.

 

2004

  • The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974) as Granice Slobode: Izmedu anarhije e Levijatana (Belgrade, Serbia: Dereta, 2002); received in 2004. Yugoslavian.
  • The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution (with Geoffrey Brennan), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) and The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (with Geoffrey Brennan), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). China Social Sciences Publishing House: Beijing, 2004; with foreword and coauthor note (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). Chinese.
  • Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State with Richard Musgrave, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1999). Budapest, Hungary, 2004. Hungarian.
  • Anti-Globalization, Democracy, and the Logic of Trade” a version as “Anti-Globalisierung und die Logik des Handels” Schweizer Monatshefte: Zeitschrift für Politik Wirtschaft Kultur 84 (11, November 2004): 17–20. German.
  • Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice (Washington DC:, Cato Institute, 2002), Chinese translation by Angle & BestWise Publishing Group, 2003.
  • Virginia Political Economy: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Volume 1, edited and with an Introduction by Charles K. Rowley, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indiana, 2004.
  • The Calculus of Consent: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Volume 2, edited and with an Introduction by Charles K. Rowley, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, 2004.

2003

  • Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime, Tabarrok, ed.
  • Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing World Cultures, Cowen
  • How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics & the Ur-Text of Racial Politics, Levy, paperback
  • Improving Democracy by Constitutional Reform: Some Swedish Lessons, Congleton
  • The New Federalist, Tullock, Italian trans.
  • Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies, Crain

2002

  • Att Forbattra Demokratin: En Politisk-Economisk Analys av Sveriges Grundlag, Congleton
  • The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, vol. 20
  • Economics of Rent Seeking, Congleton and Tollison

2001

  • The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, vols. 14–19, Buchanan; Brennan, Tollison, Kliemt, eds.
  • How the Dismal Science Got Its Name, Levy
  • Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms, Crain and Hopkins

2000

  • The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, vols. 7–13, Buchanan; Brennan, Tollison, Kliemt, eds.
  • Economic Welfare, Cowen
  • What Price Fame?, Cowen

1999

  • The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Tullock, Korean trans.
  • The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, vols. 1–6, Buchanan; Brennan, Tollison, Kliemt, eds.
  • Public Finance and Public Choice, Buchanan and Musgrave

1998

  • The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Tullock, Italian trans.
  • The Limits of Liberty, Buchanan, Russian trans.; 2d Italian trans.
  • Politics by Principle, Not Interest, Buchanan and Congleton
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture, Cowen
  • Risk and Business Cycles, Cowen

1997

  • The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Tullock, Russian trans.
  • The Limits of Liberty, Buchanan, Romanian trans.
  • Politicized Economies, Ekelund and Tollison
  • Post-Socialist Political Economy, Buchanan
  • Public Finance in Democratic Process, Buchanan, Polish trans.

1996

  • The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Tullock, Romanian trans.
  • Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy, Wagner
  • The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order, Buchanan, Korean trans.
  • Ethics and Economic Progress, Buchanan, Spanish trans.
  • The Limits of Liberty, Buchanan, Slovak trans.
  • Political Economy of Environmental Protection, Congleton
  • Sacred Trust, Tollison, et al.

1995

  • The Economic Analysis of Rent Seeking, Tollison and Congleton, eds.
  • Explorations in the New Monetary Economics, Cowen and Kroszner
  • Legacies of the Collapse of Marxism, Moore
  • Trade Protection in the United States, Wagner, Rowley, and Thorbecke

1994

  • Ethics and Economic Progress, Buchanan
  • The Return to Increasing Returns, Buchanan and Yoon, eds.
  • Rules and Choice in Economics, Vanberg
  • On the Trail of Homo Economicus, Tullock; Brady and Tollison, eds.

1993

  • Cost and Choice, Buchanan, Portuguese trans.
  • The Limits of Liberty, The Shaftesbury Papers, 1, Rowley
  • Macroeconomics, Tollison and Ekelund
  • Microeconomics, Tollison and Ekelund
  • The Next 25 Years of Public Choice, Rowley, Schneider, and Tollison, eds.
  • Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy, Rowley
  • Property Rights as a Guarantor of Liberty, Buchanan
  • Public Choice Theory, vols. 1–3, Rowley
  • Public Finance in Democratic Process, Buchanan, Chinese trans.
  • The Reason of Rules, Brennan and Buchanan, German trans.
  • Social Choice Theory, vols. 1–3, Rowley

1992

  • Better than Plowing, Buchanan
  • The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order, Buchanan, Japanese trans.
  • The Economics of Smoking, Tollison and Wagner
  • The National Collegiate Athletic Association, Fleisher, Goff, and Tollison
  • Right to Justice, Rowley

1991

  • Charging for Government, Wagner
  • Constitutional Economics, Buchanan
  • Deficits, Buchanan, Rowley, and Tollison, eds., Japanese trans.
  • Economic Ideas of Ordinary People, Levy
  • Economics, Buchanan; Tollison and Vanberg, comp., Japanese trans.
  • The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order, Buchanan
  • The Reason of Rules, Brennan and Buchanan, Italian trans.

1990

  • Concentration and Competition, Tollison, Kaplan, and Higgins
  • Constitutional Political Economy, inaugural issue
  • Freedom in Constitutional Contract, Buchanan, Italian trans.
  • Liberty, Market and State, Buchanan, Chinese trans.
  • Predicting Politics, Crain and Tollison
  • Sportometrics, Goff and Tollison

1989

  • Essays on the Political Economy, Buchanan
  • Explorations into Constitutional Economics, Buchanan; Tullock and Vanberg, comps.
  • To Promote the General Welfare, Wagner
  • The Reason of Rules, Brennan and Buchanan, Japanese trans.

1988

  • Clearing the Air, Tollison, ed.
  • Cost and Choice, Buchanan, Japanese trans.
  • Economics, 2d ed., Ekelund and Tollison
  • Morality and Economics, Vanberg
  • The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking, Rowley, Tollison, and Tullock, eds.
  • The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan, German trans.
  • Public Choice and Constitutional Economics, Wagner and Gwartney
  • Smoking and the State, Tollison and Wagner
  • Televised Legislatures, Crain and Goff

1987

  • Autocracy, Tullock
  • Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and the Constitution, Tollison and Wagner, reprint
  • Deficits, Buchanan, Rowley, and Tollison, eds.
  • Democracy and Public Choice, Rowley, ed.
  • Economics, Buchanan; Tollison and Vanberg, comp.
  • The Logic of the Law, Tullock, reprint
  • The Organization of Inquiry, Tullock, reprint
  • The Politics of Bureaucracy, Tullock, reprint
  • Private Wants, Public Means, Tullock, reprint
  • Smoking and Society, Tollison, ed., Japanese trans.

1986

  • Economics, Ekelund and Tollison
  • The Economics of Wealth and Poverty, Tullock
  • Macroeconomics, Ekelund and Tollison
  • Matter of Choice, Morse
  • Organization of Inquiry, Tullock
  • The Public Finances, 6th ed., Buchanan and Flowers
  • Smoking and Society, Tollison, ed.
  • Theory of Politics, Tullock

1985

  • Liberty, Market and State, Buchanan
  • The Reason of Rules, Brennan and Buchanan
  • The Return of the Voucher, Tullock, Hartley, and Seldon

1984

  • Análysis Económico de lo Político, Buchanan, McCormick, Tollison, and Pardo
  • The Limits of Liberty, Buchanan, German trans.
  • The New World of Economics, 4th ed., Tullock and McKenzie
  • Private Wants, Public Means, Tullock
  • The Theory of Public Choice–II, Buchanan and Tollison, eds.

1983

  • Democracy in Deficit, Buchanan and Wagner, Spanish trans.
  • Economics in Our Time, 2d ed., McNown and Lee
  • Economics of Income Redistribution, Tullock
  • Welfare for the Well-to-Do, Tullock

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