Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus

Roger Congleton

No 18-09, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: Anglo-American jurisprudence emphasizes the rule of reason; it grossly neglects the reason of rules. We play socioeconomic-legal-political games that can be described empirically only by their rules. But most of us play without an understanding or ap-preciation of the rules, how they came into being, how they are enforced, how they can be changed, and most important, how they can be normatively evaluated. (Brennan and Buchanan, 1985, preface)

Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2018-06-22
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