Economics and Beyond

David Reisman

Chapter 8 in The Political Economy of James Buchanan, 1990, pp 155-178 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract James Buchanan, reflecting on the substance of his own self-image as it was when in 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, was capable of making a declaration which in other circumstances could all too easily have caused him to be ostracised as an eccentric and ridiculed as a crank: I am not, and have never been, an ‘economist’ in any narrowly-defined meaning. My interest in understanding how the economic interaction process works has always been instrumental to the more inclusive purpose of understanding how we can learn to live one with another without engaging in Hobbesian war and without subjecting ourselves to the dictates of the state. The ‘wealth of nations’, as such, has never commanded my attention save as a valued by-product of an effectively free society.1

Keywords: Political Economy; Public Choice; Methodological Individualism; Government Failure; Mixed Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10519-9_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349105199

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10519-9_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().