Research Catalog

Title

Landmark papers in economics, politics and law / selected by James M. Buchanan.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2001.

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Additional Authors

Buchanan, James M.

Description

xii, 639 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• An Elgar reference collection
• The foundations of 20th century economics ; 4

Uniform Title

• Elgar reference collection.
• Foundations of 20th century economics ; 4.

Subject

• Economic man
• Economics
• Social choice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / James M. Buchanan -- Preface / Mark Blaug -- 1. Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory / Armen A. Alchian -- 2. Some Economics of Property Rights / Armen A. Alchian -- 3. The Ethics of Competition / Frank H. Knight -- 4. Some Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost / F. H. Knight -- 5. The Ricardian Theory of Production and Distribution / Frank H. Knight -- 6. Economics in the United States of America: A Review and Interpretation of Research / Rutledge Vining -- 7. Increasing Returns and Economic Progress / Allyn Young -- 8. A Positive Program for Laissez Faire: Some Proposals for a Liberal Economic Policy / Henry C. Simons -- 9. Rules versus Authorities in Monetary Policy / Henry C. Simons -- 10. The Interpretation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources / Howard R. Bowen -- 11. The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure / Paul A. Samuelson -- 12. The Marshallian Demand Curve / Milton Friedman -- 13. The Role of Monetary Policy / Milton Friedman --^
• 14. The Nature of the Firm / R. H. Coase -- 15. The Problem of Social Cost / Ronald H. Coase -- 16. The Use of Knowledge in Society / F. A. Hayek -- 17. The Economics of Information / George J. Stigler -- 18. On Welfare Theory and Pareto Regions / Ragnar Frisch -- 19. The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal / Amartya Sen -- 20. On the Rationale of Group Decision-Making / Duncan Black -- 21. Problems of Majority Voting / Gordon Tullock -- 22. The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft / Gordon Tullock -- 23. Uncertainty, Costs, and Collectivist Economic Planning / Jack Wiseman -- 24. The Theory of Public Utility Price -- An Empty Box / J. Wiseman -- 25. Risk and the Social Rate of Discount / Mark V. Pauly -- 26. Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The Anatomy of Urban Crisis / William J. Baumol -- 27. A Notion of Equilibrium and Its Possibility Under Majority Rule / Charles R. Plott --^
• 28. Separation of the Redistributive and Allocative Functions of Government: A Public Choice Perspective / Marilyn R. Flowers and Patricia M. Danzon -- 29. The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society / Anne O. Krueger.

ISBN

1840644729

LCCN

2001053220 ^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library