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An American evaluation of Europe's Constitutional Prospect 0 0 0 29 1 3 7 71
Notes on Nobelity 0 0 1 93 1 2 7 234
The Constitution of Economic Policy 0 2 12 376 3 14 67 894
Total Working Papers 0 2 13 498 5 19 81 1,199


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A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory 0 0 2 214 2 4 16 652
A Correction in Elementary Public Choice Geometry 0 0 0 44 2 2 9 199
A Future for "Agricultural Economics"? 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 13
A HOBBESIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE RAWLSIAN DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE 0 2 3 28 3 8 17 517
A Smithean Perspective on Increasing Returns 0 0 3 93 2 4 20 191
A Theory of Truth in Autobiography 0 0 1 7 0 0 7 32
A public choice approach to public utility pricing (1) 0 0 0 12 2 2 6 32
A theory of leadership and deference in constitutional construction 0 1 2 12 2 4 17 55
Adam smith on public choice 0 0 0 31 1 1 4 69
Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum 1 2 6 289 4 10 26 987
Agreement and efficiency: response to Guttman 0 0 0 27 1 1 8 139
Albert Breton, Competitive governments: An economic theory of politics and public finance 0 0 0 166 0 2 13 491
All voting is strategic 0 0 0 102 0 1 6 243
An American Perspective on Europe's Constitutional Opportunity 0 0 0 43 1 1 9 110
Anarchism 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 20
Barro on the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem 0 3 19 1,231 3 10 46 3,200
Better than Ploughing 0 0 0 61 1 1 5 135
Book reviews 0 0 0 3 3 4 8 38
CONVEXITY CONSTRAINTS IN PUBLIC GOODS THEORY 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 241
CRITERIA FOR GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE: COMMENT 0 0 0 9 2 3 5 62
Cartels, coalitions, and constitutional politics 0 0 1 6 2 3 8 42
Choosing for others: A neglected element in the theory of collective action 0 1 2 55 1 3 13 181
Clarifying Confusion About the Balanced Budget Amendment 0 1 1 13 1 4 11 49
Confessions of a Burden Monger 0 0 0 36 2 3 6 126
Constitutional Efficiency and the European Central Bank 0 0 0 38 0 0 7 88
Constitutional Implications of Radical Subjectivism 0 0 0 106 3 5 10 387
Constitutional implications of alternative models of increasing returns 0 0 0 10 3 4 10 44
Contractarian Political Economy and Constitutional Interpretation 0 0 0 175 1 1 6 690
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 350. $24.95 0 0 0 32 1 2 9 75
Der verteilende Staat: Ansätze zu einer Theorie der Umverteilung 0 0 1 5 1 1 7 21
Dialogues concerning fiscal religion 0 0 1 154 1 3 9 380
Direct Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and Constitutional Strategy 0 0 2 9 1 2 8 28
Economic Foundations of Political Power. By Randall Bartlett. (New York: The Free Press, 1973. Pp. xi, 206. $8.95.) 1 1 1 4 5 6 9 22
Economic Science and Cultural Diversity 0 0 1 7 0 0 5 276
Economic Science in the Future 0 0 0 99 1 4 8 263
Economics in the Post-Socialist Century 0 1 1 85 4 7 9 323
Economists Have No Clothes 0 0 1 179 1 3 15 383
Efficiency limits of fiscal mobility: An assessment of the tiebout model 0 0 3 609 0 2 14 1,206
Endnote 0 0 0 1 3 4 6 43
Entrepreneurship and the Internalization of Externalities 0 1 1 15 0 2 7 484
Erratum to: Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy 0 0 0 12 1 1 5 118
Ethics and Economic Progress: Compte rendu par Thierry Sebagh 0 0 0 24 2 3 6 74
Europe as social reality 0 0 0 14 2 3 10 60
External Diseconomies in Competitive Supply 0 0 0 75 1 1 6 438
External Diseconomies in Competitive Supply: Reply 0 0 0 20 0 2 4 238
External Diseconomies, Corrective Taxes, and Market Structure 0 1 4 674 1 6 25 2,006
Federal Grants and Resource Allocation 0 0 2 65 1 4 12 200
Federal Grants and Resource Allocation: A Reply 0 0 0 30 1 1 4 115
Federalism and Individual Sovereignty 0 0 0 50 3 3 10 165
Fiscal Equity in the Unequal Treatment of Unequals: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 43 2 2 2 136
Fiscal policy and fiscal preference 0 0 0 38 1 1 6 128
Game theory, mathematics, and economics 0 1 3 114 1 2 11 228
Generalized Increasing Returns, Euler's Theorem, and Competitive Equilibrium 0 1 5 46 3 5 17 150
Genesis 0 0 0 43 1 3 11 128
HAYEK ET LES FORCES DE L’HISTOIRE 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 20
Hegel on the calculus of voting 0 0 0 27 1 1 4 59
Heraclitian Vespers 0 0 1 56 0 2 4 290
How can constitutions be designed so that politicians who seek to serve “public interest” can survive and prosper? 0 0 4 148 2 3 12 388
I did not call him “Fritz”: Personal recollections of Professor F. A. v. Hayek 0 0 1 43 2 2 5 215
Ideas, institutions, and political economy: A plea for disestablishment 0 0 0 30 2 4 14 95
In search of homunculus politicus 0 0 0 57 0 1 6 141
Individual Choice in Voting and the Market 2 6 17 412 3 11 38 954
Individual Rights, Emergent Social States, and Behavioral Feasibility 1 2 3 15 5 10 15 33
Interests and Theories in Constitutional Choice 1 3 5 69 5 10 22 149
Jack Wiseman: A personal appreciation 0 0 1 4 0 2 9 39
Justice among Natural Equals: Memorial Marker for John Rawls 0 0 0 86 3 4 11 273
Justification of the Compound Republic: The Calculus in Retrospect 0 0 0 16 2 3 6 67
LET US UNDERSTAND ADAM SMITH 1 1 2 284 3 3 11 437
Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy 0 0 0 20 1 2 8 110
Majoritarian Logic 0 0 0 48 1 1 7 188
Majoritarian Management of the Commons 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 268
Majoritarian exploitation of the fiscal commons: general taxes-differential transfers 0 0 0 85 4 6 13 281
MarketFailure and Political Failure 0 0 5 51 6 7 23 121
Markets, States, and the Extent of Morals 0 0 4 125 0 1 17 391
Meglio che arare 0 0 0 31 1 1 3 97
NATURAL EQUALITY, INCREASING RETURNS, AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS: A REINTERPRETATION OF ADAM SMITH'S SYSTEM 0 0 2 19 9 9 24 69
NOTES ON HAYEK--Miami, 15 February, 1979 0 0 1 43 1 3 8 115
Nobelity 0 0 0 45 4 4 7 210
Notes for an Economic theory of socialism 0 0 0 4 1 1 7 46
Notes on the Liberal Constitution 0 0 0 18 5 5 6 61
ON A FISCAL CONSTITUTION FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION 0 1 1 38 0 3 6 92
Obituary: The Sayer of Truth: A Personal Tribute to Peter Bauer 0 0 0 17 2 3 6 168
On Monopoly Price 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 18
On Monopoly Price: Reply 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 8
On Some Fundamental Issues in Political Economy: An Exchange of Correspondence 0 0 1 6 3 6 10 26
Organization Theory and Fiscal Economics: Society, State, and Public Debt 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 354
PROFESSOR MAXWELL AND FISCAL EQUITY 0 0 0 6 2 2 3 58
Pareto Superior Tax Reform: Some Simple Analytics 0 0 0 66 0 0 1 251
Peak Loads and Efficient Pricing: Comment 0 0 0 2 1 2 6 20
Political Constraints on Contractual Redistribution 0 0 1 55 1 3 10 203
Political Economy and National Priorities: A Review Essay of the Economic Report of the President and the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers 0 0 0 42 1 1 2 272
Political Philosophy, Jean Hampton. Westview Press, 1997, xiii + 272 pages 0 0 2 75 1 2 8 241
Politics and Markets: The World’s Political Economic Systems 0 0 1 6 0 1 5 26
Politics as Tragedy in Several Acts 0 0 0 94 0 1 7 331
Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins1 0 0 1 3 2 5 7 11
Politics, Property, and the Law: An Alternative Interpretation of Miller et al. v. Schoene 0 0 0 27 3 5 12 426
Politics, Time, and the Laffer Curve 0 0 2 405 1 4 14 989
Polluters' Profits and Political Response: Direct Control versus Taxes: Reply 0 0 0 74 1 1 5 269
Polluters' Profits and Political Response: Direct Controls Versus Taxes 0 0 2 458 0 0 9 1,201
Predictive Power and the Choice among Regimes 0 0 0 46 4 5 10 211
Principles of urban fiscal strategy 0 0 0 23 2 5 9 70
Private Interest Support for Efficiency Enhancing Antitrust Policies 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 510
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 0 1 10 1 1 7 39
Public Choice after Socialism 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 296
Public Choice and the Extent of the Market 0 0 1 110 5 6 11 290
Rationality as Prudence: Another Reason for Rules 0 0 0 15 2 3 7 67
Rawls on justice as fairness 0 1 3 22 0 1 5 59
Reductionist Reflections on the Monetary Constitution 0 0 1 13 3 3 9 51
Rent Seeking, Noncompensated Transfers, and Laws of Succession 0 0 1 40 0 0 6 442
Revenue Implications of Money Creation under Leviathan 0 0 0 9 2 4 11 238
Review 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 21
Reviews 0 0 0 3 1 2 8 48
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 27
Reviews 0 0 0 4 2 3 6 51
Reviews 0 1 1 1 2 3 4 27
Reviews 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 34
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 24
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 32
Reviews 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 26
Same players, different game: how better rules make better politics 0 1 1 181 4 5 13 391
Secession and the Limits of Taxation: Toward a Theory of Internal Exit 0 0 0 354 2 6 17 1,006
Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets 1 1 4 481 4 4 15 1,118
Social Security Survival: A Public-Choice Perspective 0 0 2 37 1 4 12 105
Subjective Elements in Rawlsian Contractual Agreement on Distributional Rules 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 229
Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anticommons 1 3 9 74 5 13 35 1,722
THE ICONS OF PUBLIC DEBT 0 1 2 21 0 1 7 73
Tax Rates and Tax Revenues in Political Equilibrium: Some Simple Analytics 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 349
Tax Reform as Political Choice 0 0 1 124 2 4 10 342
Tax instruments as constraints on the disposition of public revenues 0 0 2 104 3 3 10 263
Taxation in fiscal exchange 0 1 1 127 2 4 28 323
The Backbending Supply Curve of Labor: An Example of Doctrinal Retrogression? 0 0 1 31 0 0 4 87
The Balanced Budget Amendment: Clarifying the Arguments 0 0 2 244 2 3 11 798
The Constitution of Economic Policy 3 4 11 784 14 20 50 2,111
The Constitutionalization of Money 0 0 3 139 5 5 30 307
The Economic Theory of Politics Reborn 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 24
The Economics and Ethics of Idleness 0 0 0 80 0 0 5 288
The Economics of Earmarked Taxes 0 2 7 368 1 8 32 921
The Economics of Rights, Co-operation, and Welfare, Robert Sugden. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, vii + 191 pages 0 0 0 76 3 3 10 210
The Evaluation of Public Services 0 0 0 35 4 4 6 110
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs 0 0 0 29 2 3 10 303
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs: Reply 0 0 0 3 3 3 9 175
The Incidence and Effects of Public Debt in the Absence of Fiscal Illusion 0 1 3 23 1 4 15 138
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 1 5 15 189
The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective: Comment 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 290
The Limits of Market Efficiency 0 0 3 225 3 6 13 444
The Market as a Creative Process 0 0 7 319 4 9 40 790
The Market, Yes; Demos, No 0 0 0 36 2 2 5 86
The Minimal Politics of Market Order 0 0 1 19 1 1 5 66
The Moral Dimension of Debt Financing 0 0 0 0 0 6 15 411
The Optimality of Pure Competition in the Capacity Problem: Comment 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 12
The Political Efficiency of General Taxation 0 0 2 17 1 2 9 42
The Pure Theory of Government Finance: A Suggested Approach 0 1 9 384 1 6 19 890
The Real Debt 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 18
The Status of the Status Quo 0 0 1 191 2 3 11 516
The Theory of Monopolistic Quantity Discounts 0 0 0 10 2 2 6 37
The costs of collectivization, per se 0 0 1 34 3 4 19 137
The domain of constitutional economics 2 2 11 184 5 6 39 478
The expanding public sector: Wagner squared 0 1 1 39 2 4 11 179
The institutional structure of externality 0 0 1 22 0 1 8 64
The metamorphosis of John Gray 0 0 0 15 1 1 6 42
The most significant contributions to economics during the twentieth century: lists of the Nobel laureates 0 0 0 402 4 7 14 959
The normative purpose of economic "science": Rediscovery of an eighteenth century method 0 1 4 137 1 3 10 494
The political ambiguity of Reagan economics: Marginal adjustment or structural shift? 0 0 0 26 1 1 2 170
The politicization of market failure 0 0 0 12 1 4 12 58
The relevance of Pareto optimality 0 0 0 40 1 1 6 118
Towards a tax constitution for Leviathan 0 2 6 461 1 7 24 871
Towards a theory of yes-no voting 0 0 0 1 4 4 12 27
Towards the Simple Economics of Natural Liberty: An Exploratory Analysis 0 0 0 6 2 2 6 168
Trying again to value a life 0 0 0 36 0 1 9 159
Utopia, the minimal state, and entitlement 1 1 2 20 8 9 20 64
Vote Buying in a Stylized Setting: Reply 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 127
Vote buying in a stylized setting 0 0 0 3 8 9 14 36
Who Should Pay for Common-Access Facilities? 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 86
Zur Verfassung der Wirtschaftspolitik 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 10
Total Journal Articles 15 53 229 14,646 319 557 1,790 48,796
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Cost and Choice 0 0 0 0 3 6 14 131
Individualism and Political Disorder 0 0 0 24 3 5 13 117
PROPERTY AS A GUARANTOR OF LIBERTY 0 0 4 162 1 4 29 450
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 62
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 72
Public Debt in a Democratic Society 0 0 0 50 2 4 6 118
Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State 0 0 0 0 8 14 48 1,254
The Power to Tax 0 0 0 0 8 12 31 457
The Power to Tax 0 0 0 0 10 23 113 2,109
The Reason of Rules 0 0 0 0 0 1 20 2,320
Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative 0 0 4 130 5 7 26 467
post-socialist political economy 0 0 1 69 2 5 11 265
Total Books 0 0 9 435 43 84 330 7,822


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An Efficiency Basis for Federal Fiscal Equalization 0 0 0 70 2 5 10 178
Before Public Choice 0 2 4 46 1 4 10 94
Better than Ploughing 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5
Comment 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 11
Constitutional Political Economy 0 0 0 0 8 10 18 24
EXTERNALITY 3 3 9 95 6 19 58 301
Ethics and the Extent of the Market 0 0 0 19 3 3 6 42
Externality 0 0 1 4 8 17 62 206
On Some Fundamental Issues in Political Economy: An Exchange of Correspondence 0 0 0 0 4 5 10 14
Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 37
Politics, Property, and the Law: An Alternative Interpretation of Miller et al. v. Schoene 0 0 1 1 2 3 9 11
Presuppositions in the evaluation of rules 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 36
Property as a Guarantor of Liberty 0 0 1 8 6 8 21 49
Reflections After Three Decades 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 44
Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking 0 1 1 3 4 27 102 136
Rent Seeking, Noncompensated Transfers, and Laws of Succession 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 16
Subjective Evaluation of Alternatives in Individual Voting Choice 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 21
Total Chapters 3 6 17 277 48 112 341 1,225


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