Federalism, Liberty, and the Law

by Buchanan, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780865972483
• ISBN10: 0865972486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

Summary

The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan is a vast and significant twenty-volume series that includes ten monographs and all of the important journal articles, papers, and essays that Buchanan has produced in a distinguished career spanning more than half a century. Volume 20 presents a comprehensive index to the entire series and an annotated copy of the entire curriculum vitae, indicating in which volume in the series the various items appear and, correspondingly, those items that have been omitted.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
The Analytics of Federalism
Federalism and Fiscal Equity	3	(20)
An Efficiency Basis for Federal Fiscal Equalization	23	(21)
James M. Buchanan
Richard E. Wagner
Efficiency Limits of Fiscal Mobility: An Assessment of the Tiebout Model	44	(23)
James M. Buchanan
Charles J. Goetz
Federalism and Freedom
Federalism as an Ideal Political Order and an Objective for Constitutional Reform	67	(12)
Federalism and Individual Sovereignty	79	(11)
Economic Freedom and Federalism: Prospects for the New Century	90	(9)
Europe's Constitutional Opportunity	99	(19)
National Politics and Competitive Federalism: Italy and the Constitution of Europe	118	(13)
On a Fiscal Constitution for the European Union	131	(17)
James M. Buchanan
Dwight R. Lee
Secession and the Limits of Taxation: Toward a Theory of Internal Exit	148	(19)
James M. Buchanan
Roger L. Faith
Liberty, Man, and the State
Man and the State	167	(6)
Criteria for a Free Society: Definition, Diagnosis, and Prescription	173	(12)
The Individual as Participant in Political Exchange	185	(13)
Towards the Simple Economics of Natural Liberty: An Exploratory Analysis	198	(18)
Property as a Guarantor of Liberty	216	(47)
The Constitution of Markets
On the Structure of an Economy: A Re-emphasis of Some Classical Foundations	263	(13)
Market Failure and Political Failure	276	(13)
The Market as a Creative Process	289	(22)
James M. Buchanan
Viktor J. Vanberg
Cultural Evolution and Institutional Reform	311	(16)
Economists, Efficiency, and the Law
Good Economics---Bad Law	327	(11)
Comment	338	(4)
Politics, Property, and the Law: An Alternative Interpretation of Miller et al. v. Schoene	342	(16)
In Defense of Caveat Emptor	358	(11)
Notes on Irrelevant Externalities, Enforcement Costs and the Atrophy of Property Rights	369	(16)
Law, Money, and Crime
Gold, Money and the Law: The Limits of Governmental Monetary Authority	385	(47)
James M. Buchanan
T. Nicolaus Tideman
A Defense of Organized Crime?	432	(17)
Name Index	449	(4)
Subject Index	453