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Papers on Buchanan and related subjects
In: Studies in economics and social sciences 1
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory
In: Public choice, Band 195, Heft 3-4, S. 269-281
ISSN: 1573-7101
AbstractRejecting all knowledge claims concerning right and wrong in matters practical James Buchanan concurred with legal positivism that invalid law cannot be identified by its substantive content but only by an inherited defect in its factual creation. Beyond correct creation Buchanan proposed as a quasi-natural law constraint that unanimity in the shadow of individual veto power must at least be conceivable if a norm is to be law. The emerging hybrid conception of constitutional law is symptomatic for Buchanan's never-ending but ultimately futile efforts to incorporate Kantian ideals of interpersonal respect into constitutional economics without imposing them as personal values.
Economic and Sociological Accounts of Social Norms
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 41-96
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
Classifying accounts of institutionalized social norms that rely on individual rule-following as 'sociological' and accounts based on individual opportunity-seeking behavior as 'economic', the paper rejects purely economic accounts on theoretical grounds. Explaining the realworkings of institutionalized social norms and social order exclusively in terms of self-regarding opportunityseeking individual behavior is impossible. An integrated sociological approach to the so-called Hobbesian problem of social order that incorporates opportunityseeking along with rule-following behavior is necessary. Such an approach emerges on the horizon if economic methods are put to good sociological use on the basis of recent experimental economic findings on rule-following behavior.
Kapitalismus – ein Feindbild für die Kirchen?: Anmerkung zum gleichnamigen Buch von Stephan Wirz (Hg.)
In: Ordo: Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 462-467
ISSN: 2366-0481
Universal Rights Localized or Local Rights Universalized?
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 321-328
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
A universalist conception of immigration, assuming that all humans have a fundamental ethical right to equal consideration (Brücker), is contrasted with a particularist ethical conception that restricts equal consideration to members of a given community (Osterloh/Frey). It is argued that within the limits of Robbinsian economics only a communitarian conception is acceptable while an ethical theorist might lean towards a universalist view.
On the Nature and Significance of (Ideal) Rational Choice Theory
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 131-160
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
The increasingly wide spread use of RCM, rational choice modeling, and RCT, rational choice theory, in disciplines like economics, law, ethics, psychology, sociology, political science, management facilitates interdisciplinary exchange. This is a great achievement. Yet it nurtures the hope that a unified account of rational (inter-)active choice making might arise from 'reason' in (a priori) terms of intuitively appealing axioms. Such 'rationalist' characterizations of rational choice neglect real human practices and empirical accounts of those practices. This is theoretically misleading and practically dangerous. Searching for a wide reflective equilibrium, WRE, on RCT in evidence-oriented ways can explicate 'rational' without rationalism.
Direct constitutional democracy: Comment on "Proposals for a Democracy of the Future" by Bruno Frey
In: Homo oeconomicus: HOE ; journal of behavioral and institutional economics, Band 34, Heft 2-3, S. 237-242
ISSN: 2366-6161
The Defensive State
In: The independent review: journal of political economy, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 11
ISSN: 1086-1653
In his seminal book The State ([19851] 1998) Anthony de Jasay draws attention to the anomaly that a minimal state would have to devote its coercive power to no other purpose than to keep itself minimal. Once a state exists, those in control of its fundamental coercive power will use it for their particular redistributive purposes and go beyond the minimum redistribution necessary to maintain the minimal state. Within a politically realist perspective, neither anarchy nor the minimal state forms a stable equilibrium of social interaction. Nevertheless, Jasay prefers anarchy to a minimal state as an ideal. The worst atrocities in human history have been committed by states. In view of the risks brought about by founding a state, anarchy may be seen as a mortally justified hedge of bets: the best and the worst results of human organization are prevented. Adapted from the source document.
Buchanan as a Classical Liberal
In: The independent review: journal of political economy, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 391-400
ISSN: 1086-1653
James M. Buchanan was a contractarian. The author is not. But he shares Buchanan's classical-liberal ideals. In his account of what he regards as Buchanan's classical-liberal views, he starts with a reconstruction of the somewhat unconventional but very far-sighted way in which Buchanan intuitively made the conceptual distinction between what he calls 'philosophical' liberalism and 'political' (or institutional) liberalism. It seems that Buchanan in his more unguarded moments intended to subscribe to both philosophical and political liberalism. Accepting that philosophical liberalism is impossible, however, he thinks that Buchanan should be seen as a 'communitarian liberal philosopher.' His philosophical use of the unanimity principle rather naturally led him to this position and the political liberalism implied by it. As an ordo- rather than an anarcholiberal, Buchanan understood that in a world without a state, all life would become 'politicized.'. Adapted from the source document.
The consents of The Calculus
In: Public choice, Band 152, Heft 3-4, S. 439-443
ISSN: 1573-7101
Tayloring Game Theory the Ostrom Way
In: The Good Society: a PEGS journal, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 37-49
ISSN: 1538-9731
The PPE enterprise: Common Hobbesian roots and perspectives
In: Politics, philosophy & economics: ppe, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 398-410
ISSN: 1741-3060
Conceptualizing behavior decision theoretically as being 'pulled' (by an expected future) is fundamentally different from conceptualizing it as 'pushed' (or determined by past conditions according to causal laws). However, the fundamental distinction between teleological and non-teleological explanations not withstanding, decision-theoretic and evolutionary 'ways of world making' lead to strikingly similar forms of political, philosophical, and economic models. Common Hobbesian roots can account historically for the emergence of such a common 'PPE' outlook, while a game-theoretic framework of indirect evolution can accommodate the fundamental methodological tension between teleological and non-teleological approaches or the 'humanities' and the 'science' traditions in PPE's disciplines.
Public choice and political philosophy: Reflections on the works of Gordon Spinoza and David Immanuel Buchanan
In: Public choice, Band 125, Heft 1-2, S. 203-213
ISSN: 1573-7101
Ernesto Garzón Valdés et al., The Future of Democracy: Essays of the Tampere Club
In: Public Choice, Band 120, Heft 1/2, S. 225-228