Bukantianism—Buchanan's philosophical economics

Hartmut Kliemt

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, vol. 80, issue 2, 275-279

Abstract: This paper reconstructs how Buchanan himself answers his question “what should economists do?” The way Buchanan tries to stir a middle course between the extremes of an a priori logic of human action and economic behaviorism is sketched as broadly Kantian. Other than a conventional Kantian, Buchanan's game theoretically inspired “dual worlds”-approach, as reconstructed, is fully compatible with a scientific world view. However, bringing together “political philosophy and predictive science”, Bukantianism has to cope with remaining tensions between the empirical and the normative.

Keywords: Economic methodology; Foundations of “contractarian” economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 B15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.07.013

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