Buchanan on Freedom

Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks

Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS from Condorcet Center for political Economy

Abstract: Our object is to explicate Buchanan's conception of individual liberty and to trace its connection to the 'working themes' in his corpus-anarchy, contract, constitution, Pareto optimality, 'public choice' and so on. In doing so, we investigate a number of tensions in Buchanan's conception-between a libertarian affinity with anarchy and constitutional contractarianism; and that between procedural liberalism and classical liberalism.

Keywords: Freedom; Liberty; Anarchy; Constitutional Contractarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 D79 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06
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