Author Description

Introduction / Paul Dragos Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, Stefanie Haeffele -- Explorations and extensions -- Rawls, Buchanan, and the search for a better social contract / Brian Kogelmann -- Horses & carts and justice & rules : getting the order right / Benjamin Johnson -- The problem of rule-following in American political thought / Connor Ewing -- Longer term lengths' political capital accrual and monitoring / Mackenzie Endress -- James M. Buchanan on scientific politics / Darren Nah -- Artifactual beings, artifactual institutions / Paul Baumgardner -- Buchanan and arrow on democracy, impossibility, and market / Brian Kogelmann -- Interdisciplinary applications -- Exchange, search theory, and Buchanan's foundations of politics / Brian C. Albrecht -- State Leviathan and tax competition under a federal constitution / Thomas Choate -- Public choice and the study of autocratic survival / George Derpanopoulos -- Potential contributions from sociology to James Buchanan's theoretical agenda for economics / Adam Bleser -- About the authors