James Buchanan Center - Working Paper Series

Copies of the working papers are available upon request from the professors at (703)993-2330.

Author(s)

Title

Buchanan

American Evaluation of Europe's Constitutional Prospect

Buchanan

Catalonia and the Constitution of Europe

Buchanan Centennial Reflections, Mostly Macroeconomic: 1999 and 1929 Compared
Buchanan Classical Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man

Buchanan

Comment on Alesina "Political Economy of Macroeconomic Stabilization and Income Equality"

Buchanan

Constitution for Europe

Buchanan

Constitutional Economics of Ethics

Buchanan Constitutional Way of Thinking
Buchanan Constraints on Political Action
Buchanan Contractarianism
Buchanan Cost, Choice, and Catallaxy

Buchanan

Defense of Noblesse Oblige (Reluctantly Offered)

Buchanan

Democracy without Community

Buchanan

Dimensionality, Rights and Choices among Relevant Alternatives

Buchanan

Federalism and the European Union

Buchanan

Fiscal Equalization Revisited

Buchanan

Generality as a Constitutional Constraint

Buchanan

God, the State, and the Market

Buchanan

Hayek Difference

Buchanan Hereclitian Vespers

Buchanan

Individual and the Community in the Post-Communist Epoch

Buchanan Individual Responsibility in Market Choice and in Political Choice
Buchanan Madison's Angels

Buchanan

Majoritarian Democracy and the General Welfare

Buchanan

Middle Tennessee Values

Buchanan Morality and Community: Extended Market Order
Buchanan Morals, Politics, and Institutional Reform
Buchanan Origins, Experiences, and Ideas

Buchanan

Political Economy of Birthing Choice

Buchanan Political Economy of Regional Autonomy in the European Setting for the New Century
Buchanan Political Institutions and Individual Responsibility

Buchanan

Politics as Tragedy in Several Acts

Buchanan

Prolegomena for an Economics of Ethics

Buchanan

Public Choice and Alternative Policy Perspectives

Buchanan Reflections on Electronic Democracy

Buchanan

Review of Mark Kelman, Strategy or Principle?

Buchanan

Review of John Rawls, Justice as Fairness

Buchanan

Rule Feasibility and Rule Dominance

Buchanan

Sense of Community in Hayekian Moral Order

Buchanan

Secession and the Economic Constitution

Buchanan Taxpayer Apathy, Institutional Inertia and Economic Growth

Buchanan

Transcending Genetic Limits

Buchanan

Virginia's Decade in Political Economy

Buchanan Why Do Constitutions Matter?

Buchanan & Yoon

Whither Goeth the State? Review of Martin Van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State

Buchanan & Yoon

Correction in Elementary Public Choice Geometry

Buchanan & Yoon

Globalization as Framed by the Two Logics of Trade

Buchanan & Yoon

Majoritarian Exploitation of the Fiscal Commons: General Taxes - Differential Transfers

Buchanan & Yoon

Majoritarian Management of the Commons
Buchanan & Yoon Universalism through Common Access: An Alternative Model of Distributive Majoritarian Politics

Caplan

The Idea Trap: The Political Economy of Growth Divergence
Caplan The Logic of Collective Belief
Caplan Does Fiscal Policy Matter Controlling for Money?
Caplan Positive Economic Beliefs and the Domain of Sociotropic Reasoning
Caplan The Logic of Collective Belief (book manuscript)
Caplan Education as a Signal of Conscientiousness
Caplan Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State (with Scott Beaulier)
Caplan The Economics of Szasz
Caplan Over-Estimating the Social Budget Constraint
Caplan The Endowment Effect, the Black Market, and the Foundation of Property

Congleton

Political and Economic Origins of Asymmetric Federalism (with Andreas Kyriacou and Jordie Bacaria)

Congleton

Policy Interests as a Source of Public Agency Problems

Congleton

Altruistic Voting

Congleton Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort
Congleton From Dictatorship to Democracy without Revolution, Economic Growth and Constitutional Exchange within the King and Council Template

Congleton

Conservation Regulation: Cyclic Demand, Externalities & Politics

Congleton

Do Constitutions Matter? Some Evidence from Sweden

Congleton

Manipulating the Demand for Bureaucratic Services (with Fabio Padovano)

Congleton

Market for Politically Active Special Interest Groups

Congleton

Political Agency, Institutions and Constitutional Dynamics

Congleton

Politics, Annexation, Institutions, and Local Fiscal Choice

Congleton

Private Morality, Elections and Public Policy

Congleton

Progressivity of Lotteries

Congleton

Rawlsian Bureaucracy: Deadly, Dull or Dynamic?

Congleton

Return to Rio: Agency Problems and the Political Economy of Environmental Treaties

Congleton

Towards a First-Best Method of Conservation Regulation

Congleton Assessing the Effects of Bicameral Legislatures within Partisan, Parliamentary, and Presidential Systems
Congleton Central Bank Independence and the Politicized Allocation of Credit (with Gustavo Arteta)
Congleton Rent-Seeking, Leviathan, and Monopolization Policies: Schumpeter and Ramsay meet Tullock and Buchanan

Congleton & Tollison

Political Economy of Crime Waves

Congleton et al.

Intra-familial Contracts

Cowen

A Theory of For-Profit Higher Education with Sam Papenfuss

Cowen

Private Water Provision in British History with Nicola Tynan

Cowen

Resolving the Arguments on Intergenerational Discounting

Cowen

Animals and Welfare Economics

Cowen

Policing Nature

Cowen The Repugnant Conclusion and the Zero Point
Cowen Pride and Self-Deception in Voting
Cowen Disagreement as Self-Deception About Meta-Rationality with Robin Hanson
Cowen Is a Novel a Model

Crain

Sources of Inefficiency in Representative Democracy

Crain

Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economics

Crain & Bradbury Who is the Median Voter in Representative Democracy?
Crain & Johnson Effects of Term Limits on Fiscal Performance
Crain & O'Roark The Impact of Performance-Based Budgeting on State Fiscal Performance
Crain & Scartiscini The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multiparty Systems

Crain & Tollison

Consumer Choice and the Popular Music Industry

Hanson

Logarithmic Market Scoring Rules for Modular Combinatorial Information Aggregation
Hanson Eliciting Objective Probabilities via Lottery Insurance Games
Hanson Disagreement as Self-Deception about Meta-Rationality, with Tyler Cowen
Hanson Uncommon Priors Require Origin Disputes
Hanson Location Discrimination in Circular City, Torus Town, and Beyond
Hanson Showing that You Care: The Evolution of Health Altruism
Hanson For Savvy Bayesian Wannabes, Disagreements are not about Information
Hanson Adverse Selection in Group Insurance: The Virtues of Failing to Represent Voters
Hanson On Voter Incentives to Become Informed
Hanson Disagreement is Unpredictable
Hanson Long-Term Growth as a Sequence of Exponential Modes
Hanson Patterns of Patronage - Why Grants Won over Prizes in Science
Hanson Burning the Cosmic Commons: Evolutionary Strategies of Interstellar Colonization
Hanson Must Early Life Be Easy? The Rythm of Major Evolutionary Transitions
Hanson Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence
Hanson An Experimental Test of Agreeing to Disagree with William Nelson
Hanson When Worlds Collide: Quantum Probability from Observer Selection?
Hanson Shall We Vote on Values, but Bet on Beliefs?
Hanson Is Fairness About Clear Fitness Signals?
Hanson World Peace, Thanks to Old Men?

Heiner

Game Theory Naturalized, Part I: Newcomb's Problem

Heiner

Game Theory Naturalized, Part II: Causation and Probabilistic Information

Heiner

Logic of Risk and Uncertainty: Part I.

Heiner

Rational Choice in 1-Shot Simultaneous PD-Situations, I: Endogenous Information

Heiner

Rational Choice in 1-Shot Simultaneous PD-Situations, II: Signal Detection Theory

Heiner

Rational Selfish Cooperation in One-Shot Simultaneous Prisoner's Dilemma Situations

Levy

The Negro Science of Exchange Classical Economics & Its Chicago Revival with Sandra Peart

Levy

Not an Average Human Being: How Economics Succumbed to Racial Accounts of Economic Man with Sandra Peart

Levy

Another Rational Species: The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of Sympathy with Sandra Peart

Levy

Who are the Canter? Economists, Evangelicals & other Parasites with Sandra Peart

Levy

Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics & the Making of Neo-Classical Economics with Sandra Peart

Levy

Analytical Egalitarianism, Anecdotal Evidence & Information Aggregation with Sandra Peart

Levy

Visualizing Anecdotal Economic Man: Victorian Anthropology and Punch with Sandra Peart

Levy

Government Science and the U.S. Economy: Approaching the Puzzle with Nestor Terleckyj

Levy

Charles Kingsley's Vulgar Political Economy with Nicola Tynan and Sandra Peart

Levy

George Stigler as Dissertation Director

Levy Games of Econometric Expert Witness: Competitive Bias-Seeking & Induced Transparency in Reporting Statistical Estimation
Stratmann Competition Policy for Elections: Do Campaign Contribution Limits Matter? with Francisco J. Aparicio-Castillo
Stratmann Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial Services Legislation
Stratmann Plurality Rule, Proportional Representation, and the German Bundestag: How Incentives to Pork-barrel Differ across Electoral Systems with Martin Baur
Stratmann Corporate Campaign Contributions, Repeat Giving, and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation with Randall S. Kroszner
Stratmann Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands with Jared Garner
Stratmann The Effect of Abortion Legalization on the Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases with Jonathan Klick

Yoon

Rent Seeking and Property Rights

Yoon

The Economics of Sex Ratio and Social Change

Yoon Differentiability of Derived Preferences

Yoon

Collective Outcome Dominance under Alternative Decision Rules: Combinatorial Analysis