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Working Papers

2014

  1. A Brief History of Equality
    Working Paper Series, Economics Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney Downloads

2012

  1. Buchanan on Freedom
    Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS, Condorcet Center for political Economy Downloads View citations (2)
    See also Chapter Buchanan on Freedom, Studies in Public Choice, Springer (2013) View citations (2) (2013)

2005

  1. Attitudes toward Private and Collective Risks in Individual and Strategic Choice Situations
    Papers on Strategic Interaction, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Downloads View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Attitudes toward private and collective risk in individual and strategic choice situations, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2008) Downloads View citations (74) (2008)

2004

  1. Approximate Truth in Economic Modelling
    Papers on Strategic Interaction, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group Downloads View citations (2)

2002

  1. From the Australian Settlement to Microeconomic Reform: the Change in Twentieth Century Policy Regimes
    Centre for International Economic Studies Working Papers, University of Adelaide, Centre for International Economic Studies Downloads

1998

  1. Is Vertical Fiscal Imbalance so Inefficient? or, The Flypaper Effect is not an Anomaly
    School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy Downloads View citations (2)

1997

  1. Trust in the Shadow of the Courts
    Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research Downloads View citations (7)
    Also in Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management (1997) Downloads View citations (2)

    See also Journal Article Trust in the Shadow of the Courts, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (2003) Downloads View citations (6) (2003)
  2. Trust in the shadow of the courts if judges are no better
    SFB 373 Discussion Papers, Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes Downloads View citations (2)

1996

  1. The Economic of Politics and the Politics of Economics
    Working Papers, Tasmania - Department of Economics

1995

  1. A Minimalist Model of Federal Grants and Flypaper Effects
    School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy Downloads
    See also Journal Article A minimalist model of federal grants and flypaper effects, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1996) Downloads View citations (14) (1996)

1991

  1. Academic Research Productivity: Are Economists Paid Their Marginal Product?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University View citations (3)

1980

  1. A Problem in the Interpretation of the Contractarian Position: The Impossibility of a Paretian Paretian
    School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy
  2. Uniform All-Or-None Pricing of Public Goods
    School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy

Journal Articles

2023

  1. Correction to: Giuseppe Eusepi (1949–2020)
    Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2023, 40, (1), 103-103 Downloads
  2. Giuseppe Eusepi (1949–2020)
    Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2023, 40, (1), 1-3 Downloads
  3. Politics as Exchange?
    Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2023, 40, (1), 39-59 Downloads

2022

  1. An Albertian View of Buchanan’s Contractarianism
    Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2022, 39, (1), 69-82 Downloads View citations (1)

2021

  1. Sugden’s community of advantage
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2021, 28, (4), 374-384 Downloads View citations (1)

2019

  1. Buchanan@100: Special Issue in Honor of James M. Buchanan
    Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2019, 36, (1), 1-5 Downloads

2016

  1. Predictors of effective de‐escalation in acute inpatient psychiatric settings
    Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2016, 25, (15-16), 2180-2188 Downloads

2015

  1. Buchanan’s anti-conservatism
    Public Choice, 2015, 163, (1), 7-13 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Olson and imperceptible differences: the Tuck critique
    Public Choice, 2015, 164, (3), 235-250 Downloads View citations (1)

2014

  1. HET: A Double Lament
    History of Economics Review, 2014, 60, (1), 50-63 Downloads
  2. Hayek’s Conservatism: The Possibility of a Conservative Liberal
    ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2014, 65, (1), 331-344 Downloads
  3. The reason for ‘The Reason of Rules’
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2014, 25, (1), 103-109 Downloads
  4. „Für Ökonomen muss alles auf eine einzige Leinwand passen“: Ein Gespräch mit Geoffrey Brennan über Sinn und Wirkung von wirtschaftspolitischen Spielregeln, die Verhaltensmotive von Bürgern und Politikern, die Möglichkeit von Reformen und die Bedeutung der ökonomischen Ideengeschichte
    Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2014, 15, (4), 334-345 Downloads View citations (1)

2013

  1. Conservatism and radicalism
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2013, 24, (2), 173-176 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. James Buchanan: in memoriam
    Public Choice, 2013, 156, (1), 1-5 Downloads

2012

  1. Politics-as-exchange and The Calculus of Consent
    Public Choice, 2012, 152, (3), 351-358 Downloads View citations (3)
  2. The political economy of public debt
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2012, 23, (3), 182-198 Downloads View citations (4)

2011

  1. On the ‘cashing out’ hypothesis and ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ policies
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27, (4), 601-610 Downloads View citations (5)

2010

  1. Climate hopes: pious and otherwise
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010, 54, (1), 5-7 Downloads
  2. Fiscal Equity In Federal Systems
    Review of Law & Economics, 2010, 6, (3), 347-363 Downloads
  3. Introduction: Ex Uno Plures. Welfare Without Illusion
    Review of Law & Economics, 2010, 6, (3), 325-328 Downloads
  4. Notes- Climate hopes: pious and otherwise
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010, 54, (01), 3 Downloads
  5. PPE: An appraisal
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2010, 9, (4), 363-365 Downloads
  6. PPE: An institutional view
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2010, 9, (4), 379-397 Downloads View citations (1)

2009

  1. Bygones are Bygones
    Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2009, (10) Downloads
  2. Climate change: A rational choice politics view
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009, 53, (3), 18 Downloads View citations (10)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009, 53, (3), 309-326 (2009) Downloads View citations (10)
  3. Hobbes’s Samuel
    Public Choice, 2009, 141, (1), 5-12 Downloads View citations (1)
  4. Politics, selection and the public interest: Besley’s benevolent despot
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2009, 22, (2), 131-143 Downloads View citations (2)

2008

  1. Attitudes toward private and collective risk in individual and strategic choice situations
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, 67, (1), 253-262 Downloads View citations (74)
    See also Working Paper Attitudes toward Private and Collective Risks in Individual and Strategic Choice Situations, Papers on Strategic Interaction (2005) Downloads View citations (10) (2005)
  2. Crime and punishment: an expressive voting view
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2008, 26, (3), 237-252 Downloads View citations (3)
  3. Homo economicus and homo politicus: an introduction
    Public Choice, 2008, 137, (3), 429-438 Downloads View citations (7)
  4. Introduction
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2008, 26, (3), 233-235 Downloads
  5. Psychological dimensions in voter choice
    Public Choice, 2008, 137, (3), 475-489 Downloads View citations (19)
  6. Regulation and revenue
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (3), 249-260 Downloads View citations (2)

2007

  1. Discounting the future, yet again
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2007, 6, (3), 259-284 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Esteem-based contributions and optimality in public goods supply
    Public Choice, 2007, 130, (3), 457-470 Downloads View citations (4)

2006

  1. Against reviving republicanism
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2006, 5, (2), 221-252 Downloads View citations (1)

2005

  1. “The Myth of Ownership” Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2005, 16, (2), 207-219 Downloads

2004

  1. An Introduction to the Status Quo
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2004, 15, (2), 127-132 Downloads View citations (5)
  2. Analytic Conservatism
    British Journal of Political Science, 2004, 34, (4), 675-691 Downloads View citations (9)
  3. Fiscal Equalisation: Some Questions of Design
    Rivista di Politica Economica, 2004, 94, (4), 79-104 Downloads View citations (1)
  4. Life in the Putty‐Knife Factory!
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2004, 63, (1), 79-104 Downloads View citations (1)

2003

  1. Trust in the Shadow of the Courts
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2003, 159, (1), 16-36 Downloads View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Trust in the Shadow of the Courts, Discussion Paper (1997) Downloads View citations (7) (1997)

2002

  1. Expressive Constitutionalism
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2002, 13, (4), 299-311 Downloads View citations (11)
  2. Power Corrupts, But Can Office Ennoble?
    Kyklos, 2002, 55, (2), 157-178 Downloads View citations (5)
  3. The Dubious Ethics of Debt Default
    Public Finance Review, 2002, 30, (6), 546-561 Downloads View citations (8)

2001

  1. Collective coherence?
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2001, 21, (2), 197-211 Downloads View citations (20)
  2. Five Rational Actor Accounts of the Welfare State
    Kyklos, 2001, 54, (2‐3), 213-233 Downloads View citations (8)

2000

  1. Book reviews
    Journal of Economics, 2000, 71, (2), 200-226 Downloads
  2. James M. Dean and A.M.C. Waterman, eds., Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999), pp. viii, 205, $95.00. ISBN 0-7923-83737
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2000, 22, (3), 386-389 Downloads
  3. Onwards and Upwards: James Buchanan At 80
    Public Choice, 2000, 104, (1-2), 1-18 Downloads View citations (1)
    Also in Public Choice, 2000, 104, (1), 1-18 (2000) Downloads View citations (1)
  4. The hidden economy of esteem
    Economics and Philosophy, 2000, 16, (1), 77-98 Downloads View citations (18)

1999

  1. On Political Representation
    British Journal of Political Science, 1999, 29, (1), 109-127 Downloads View citations (12)
  2. Public Choice and Public Finance: the Place of 'Tax Reform Advocacy'
    FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 1999, 56, (1), 67-85

1998

  1. Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, David M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, xii + 249 pages
    Economics and Philosophy, 1998, 14, (2), 339-342 Downloads
  2. Expressive Voting and Electoral Equilibrium
    Public Choice, 1998, 95, (1-2), 149-75 Downloads View citations (141)
    Also in Public Choice, 1998, 95, (1), 149-175 (1998) Downloads View citations (134)

1996

  1. A minimalist model of federal grants and flypaper effects
    Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 61, (2), 229-246 Downloads View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper A Minimalist Model of Federal Grants and Flypaper Effects, School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers (1995) Downloads (1995)

1995

  1. Economizing on virtue
    Constitutional Political Economy, 1995, 6, (1), 35-56 Downloads View citations (10)

1994

  1. A Revisionist View of the Separation of Powers
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1994, 6, (3), 345-368 Downloads View citations (11)
  2. Finite Lives and Social Institutions
    Kyklos, 1994, 47, (4), 551-571 Downloads View citations (17)
  3. Public economics: Where are we now?
    International Tax and Public Finance, 1994, 1, (2), 183-188 Downloads
  4. Reviews
    Constitutional Political Economy, 1994, 5, (1), 117-127 Downloads

1992

  1. Bicameralism and Majoritarian Equilibrium
    Public Choice, 1992, 74, (2), 169-79 View citations (6)

1991

  1. A reading of the Spanish Constitution (1978)
    Constitutional Political Economy, 1991, 2, (1), 53-79 Downloads View citations (5)

1990

  1. James Buchanan's public economics: One proposition, two speculations and three queries
    Constitutional Political Economy, 1990, 1, (2), 113-133 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Logo logic
    Constitutional Political Economy, 1990, 1, (1), 125-127 Downloads View citations (2)
  3. Unveiling the Vote
    British Journal of Political Science, 1990, 20, (3), 311-333 Downloads View citations (2)

1989

  1. Book reviews
    Public Choice, 1989, 63, (2), 183-200 Downloads

1988

  1. The Public Choice Approach to Tax Reform
    Environment and Planning C, 1988, 6, (1), 41-52 Downloads
  2. The Structure of Tertiary Education Fees
    Economic Analysis and Policy, 1988, 18, (2), 149-170 Downloads View citations (5)

1987

  1. Methodological individualism under fire: A reply to Jackson
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1987, 8, (4), 627-635 Downloads
  2. Rational Actor Theory in Politics: A Critical Review of John Quiggin
    The Economic Record, 1987, 63, (1), 22-32 Downloads View citations (4)
  3. The Logic of Electoral Preference: Response to Saraydar and Hudelson
    Economics and Philosophy, 1987, 3, (1), 131-138 Downloads View citations (1)

1985

  1. On Monopoly Price: Reply
    Kyklos, 1985, 38, (2), 274-275 Downloads
  2. Private Markets in (Excludable) Public Goods: A Reexamination
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1985, 100, (3), 811-819 Downloads View citations (6)
  3. Taxation and Policy Change: A Median Voter Model for Australia 1968–69 to 1981–82
    Australian Economic Review, 1985, 18, (3), 20-33 Downloads
  4. The Impartial Spectator Goes to Washington: Toward a Smithian Theory of Electoral Behavior
    Economics and Philosophy, 1985, 1, (2), 189-211 Downloads View citations (9)

1984

  1. Elements of a Fiscal Politics: Public Choice and Public Finance
    Australian Economic Review, 1984, 17, (3), 62-72 Downloads View citations (4)
  2. Public Finance and Public Prices: Towards a Reconstruction of Tax Theory
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1984, 39, (2), 157-81 View citations (3)

1983

  1. Government Expenditure Growth and Resource Allocation: The Nebulous Connection
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1983, 35, (3), 351-65 Downloads View citations (9)
  2. Monopoly Markets in Public Goods: the Case of the Uniform All-or-None Price
    Public Finance Review, 1983, 11, (4), 465-490 Downloads View citations (1)
  3. On Monopoly Price
    Kyklos, 1983, 36, (4), 531-547 Downloads
  4. Predictive Power and the Choice among Regimes
    Economic Journal, 1983, 93, (369), 89-105 Downloads View citations (22)

1982

  1. An economic theory of military tactics: Methodological individualism at war
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1982, 3, (2-3), 225-242 Downloads View citations (18)

1981

  1. A Monopoly Model of Public Goods Provision: The Uniform Pricing Case
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (1), 196-206 Downloads View citations (12)
  2. Revenue Implications of Money Creation under Leviathan
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (2), 347-51 View citations (7)
  3. Reviews
    Public Choice, 1981, 36, (2), 351-371 Downloads
  4. The Attribution of Public Goods Benefits
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1981, 36, (3), 347-73 View citations (5)
  5. The normative purpose of economic "science": Rediscovery of an eighteenth century method
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1981, 1, (2), 155-166 Downloads View citations (13)

1980

  1. All “NG†up an Clubs?/ some Notes on the Current Status of Club Theory
    Public Finance Review, 1980, 8, (2), 153-169 Downloads
  2. Pareto-Desirable Redistribution in Kind: Reply
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (5), 1032-36 Downloads View citations (2)

1978

  1. Death and Taxes: An Attack on the Orthodoxy
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1978, 33, (3), 201-24 View citations (1)
  2. Tax instruments as constraints on the disposition of public revenues
    Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 9, (3), 301-318 Downloads View citations (35)

1977

  1. A note on progression and public sector size
    Public Choice, 1977, 32, (1), 123-129 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Pareto-Desirable Redistribution in Kind: An Impossibility Theorem
    American Economic Review, 1977, 67, (5), 987-90 Downloads View citations (8)
  3. Tax Concessions for Charitable Contributions-A Comment
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1977, 32, (3), 402-11
  4. Towards a tax constitution for Leviathan
    Journal of Public Economics, 1977, 8, (3), 255-273 Downloads View citations (39)

1976

  1. Public Goods and Income Distribution: A Rejoinder to the Aaron-McGuire Reply
    Econometrica, 1976, 44, (2), 405-07 Downloads View citations (10)
  2. The Distributional Implications of Public Goods
    Econometrica, 1976, 44, (2), 391-99 Downloads View citations (18)

1975

  1. Optimal policy choice under uncertainty
    Journal of Public Economics, 1975, 4, (2), 205-209 Downloads View citations (6)
  2. POLLUTION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION: REPLY
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1975, 19, (2), 122-124 Downloads
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1975, 19, (2), 3 (1975) Downloads
  3. Public Goods and Factor Prices
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1975, 30, (1), 1-19
  4. Second-Best Aspects of Horizontal Equity Questions: A Reply
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1975, 30, (3), 473-75

1974

  1. Hochman and Rodgers on Brennan and Walsh: Reply
    Public Finance Review, 1974, 2, (3), 383-392 Downloads
  2. POLLUTION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION
    Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1974, 18, (01), 21 Downloads View citations (5)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1974, 18, (1), 1-21 (1974) Downloads View citations (4)

1973

  1. Pareto desirable redistribution: The non-altruistic dimension
    Public Choice, 1973, 14, (1), 43-67 Downloads View citations (22)
  2. Pareto desirable redistribution: the case of malice and envy
    Journal of Public Economics, 1973, 2, (2), 173-183 Downloads View citations (42)

1972

  1. Second Best Aspects of Horizontal Equity Questions
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1972, 27, (3), 282-91

1971

  1. Horizontal Equity: An Extension of an Extension
    Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1971, 26, (3), 437-56 View citations (4)

1969

  1. The Optimal Provision of Public Goods: A Comment
    Journal of Political Economy, 1969, 77, (2), 237-41 Downloads View citations (1)

1968

  1. The Tax Cut as an Anti‐Inflationary Measure
    The Economic Record, 1968, 44, (4), 520-525 Downloads View citations (3)

Books

2008

  1. The Reason of Rules
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (8)

2006

  1. The Power to Tax
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (13)
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (1980) View citations (1465)

2005

  1. The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society
    OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (3)
    Also in OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press (2004) View citations (58)

2000

  1. Democratic Devices and Desires
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (98)
    Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2000) View citations (102)

Edited books

2009

  1. The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics
    Books, Edward Elgar Publishing Downloads View citations (11)

1997

  1. Democracy and Decision
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (38)

1994

  1. Democracy and Decision
    Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (3)

Chapters

2018

  1. Political obligations: is debt special?
    Chapter 3 in Debt Default and Democracy, 2018, pp 36-50 Downloads View citations (1)

2016

  1. Hobbesian and Contractarian Constitutions
    Springer View citations (1)

2013

  1. Buchanan on Freedom
    Springer View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Buchanan on Freedom, Condorcet Center for political Economy (2012) Downloads View citations (2) (2012)
  2. Buchanan, Hobbes and contractarianism: the supply of rules?
    Chapter 2 in Constitutional Economics and Public Institutions, 2013, pp 17-34 Downloads
  3. Expressive voting
    Chapter 7 in The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition, 2013, pp 111-126 Downloads View citations (7)

2009

  1. Positive Constraints on Normative Political Theory
    Chapter 7 in The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics, 2009 Downloads
  2. Value and Values, Preferences and Price: An Economic Perspective on Ethical Questions
    Chapter 2 in The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics, 2009 Downloads

2008

  1. Christian theology and economics: convergence and clashes
    Chapter 5 in Christian Theology and Market Economics, 2008, pp 77-93 Downloads

2007

  1. Esteem, Norms of Participation and Public Goods Supply
    Springer View citations (5)

2004

  1. The political economy of regulation: a prolegomenon
    Chapter 4 in Changing Institutions in the European Union, 2004 Downloads

2002

  1. Public finance, public choice and the political economy of regulation
    Chapter 2 in Political Economy and Public Finance, 2002 Downloads View citations (1)

2001

  1. Constitutional choice
    Chapter 5 in The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, 2001 Downloads View citations (1)
 
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