Moral Anarchy

David Reisman

Chapter 10 in James Buchanan, 2015, pp 131-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Buchanan experienced student revolt at first hand in the 1960s, both at the LSE in 1967 and at UCLA (where a bomb went off in the Economics Department) in 1968. Believing as he does that ‘ingrained in Western tradition is a sense of respect for the rights of others, including property rights’ (AA, 122), he was bound to recognise in the ‘chaos’, the ‘trespass’, the ‘violence’, the ’social and political vandalism’, the ‘terrorist tactics’, the ‘class, race, and national hatred’ (AA, xi, 4, 5, 64), the ‘constitutional illiteracy’ (CW X, xv), the ‘burned-out buildings, broken windows, and widespread behavioral pollution’ (WSED, 268) of those troubled years nothing less than the recrudescence of the Hobbesian state of nature that had not gone away.

Keywords: Public Spending; External Cost; Operational Rule; Winning Coalition; External Reality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137427182_10

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