James M. Buchanan and the European Public Choice Movement: What Did We Learn from Him?

Friedrich Schneider ()

No 2013-24, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: In this note, three major areas of Buchanan’s research are briefly described: (1) The ideas of Knut Wicksell on Buchanan’s work, (2) constitutional economics and the veil of ignorance, and (3) the role of government and/or the power to tax. It is shown that these three areas had a major influence on the European public choice movement, for example, at the European constitutional group.

Keywords: Work of James Buchanan; constitutional economics; veil of ignorance; power to tax; European public choice Society; Knut Wicksell; role of government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E26 H11 H2 H26 K42 O11 O16 O17 O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2013-12
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