Remembering Bill Niskanen: pursuing economics as a public science in the service of liberty

Richard Wagner ()

Public Choice, 2012, vol. 153, issue 1, 7 pages

Abstract: This short essay is a memorial piece about William A. Niskanen (13 March 1933–26 October 2011). The essay starts with his time at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, and gives most attention to his contributions to public choice. Especial attention is paid to his Bureaucracy and Representative Government, which opened vast territory for subsequent analytical exploration. A good deal of attention is also paid to his Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government because this work both conveys his interest in comparative constitutional analysis and is useful for illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of his approach to this material. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

Keywords: William Niskanen; Bureaucracy; Constitutional economics; Welfare economics; Public choice; Economics as public science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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