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Book SynopsisThis book is about is more than a subdiscipline within the field of economics---it is about a new field named public choice political economy that gradually evolved during the 1970s and 1980s at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. What is the field Public Choice Political Economy all about? How did it originate? Who were the main architects and builders? What values and work habits motivated the work? Finally, how did the facts about the development of public choice political economy stack up against what we know about science in general and how it has developed?
The authors of the essays included in this volume, originally came together in May of 2000 in Blacksburg to celebrate their scientific achievements and take pride in the regimen of research and the processes that brewed at the legendary Public Choice center in Virginia. This location provided what turned out to be a fortuitous combination of obscurity and rustic quiet for original thoughts and con
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Joseph C. Pitt, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Douglas Eckel .
The Importance of Deviance in Intellectual Development: Especially at Virginia Tech in the 1970s.
Richard B. McKenzie with Roman Galar .
Public Choice and Deviance: A Comment.
Steven G. Medema.
Public Choice as an Academic Enterprise: Charlottesville, Blacksburg, and Fairfax Retrospectively Viewed.
Richard E. Wagner .
Public Choice as an Academic Enterprise: Retrospectively Viewed Again.
Eugenia F. Toma .
Life in the Putty-Knife Factory!.
Geoffrey Brennan.
The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice.
Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom.
Commentary on “The Quest for Meaning in Public Choice” by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom.
Michael C. Munger.
Bargaining with the Devil: Commentary on the Ostroms’ “Quest for Meaning in Public Choice”.
Sonia Amadae.
A Toy Model of Scientific Progress.
Suzanne Lohmann .
Scientific Progress and Lessons for Institutional Design: Comments on “A Toy Model of Scientific Progress” by Suzanne Lohmann.
Susan K. Snyder .
When Hard Heads Collide: A Philosopher Encounters Public Choice.
Loren E. Lomasky .
What Public Choice and Philosophy Should Not Learn from One Another.
Robert Sugden .
Prudence and Constitutional Rights.
Edward F. McClennen .
Comments on McClennen’s “Prudence and Constitutional Rights”: Or How Do You Turn Words Into Action?.
Joseph C. Pitt .
Heraclitian Vespers.
James M. Buchanan
