Introduction

David Reisman

Chapter 1 in James Buchanan, 2015, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In summary, it is like this. The good society must be built up from the revealed preferences of unique individuals who feel a need to register their choices. God has been dead for a century. Truth is tested by agreement. Efficiency is tested by agreement. Justice is consensus. Fairness is the rational calculus of the loss-averting one-off when situated behind a thick veil of fog.

Keywords: Public Choice; Market Order; Social Philosophy; Constitutional Political Economy; Constitutional Convention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137427182_1

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