Economic Analysis and Political Ideology

Edited by Thomas Lys, John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, US

• Contents: Preface Introduction by James Buchanan 1. Knowledge, Values and the Choice of Economic Organization 2. My Quest for Economic Knowledge 3. The Poverty of Nations 4. ‘Assumptions’ and the Cognitive Quality of Theories 5. The Perception of Man and the Conception of Government 6. The Perception of Man and the Conception of Society: Two Approaches to Understanding Society 7. Reflections on ‘Theology and the Social Order” 8. Religion and the Social Order 9. The First World, the Third World and the Survival of Free Societies 10. The New International Economic Order: A Chapter in a Protracted Confrontation 11. The Socio-political Vision of Keynes 12. Reflections on the Political Economy of Government: The Persistent Growth of Government 13. The Limits of Economic Policy 14. Mephistopheles and Inflation 15. Economic, Development, Cancun and the Western Democracies 16. A Fascination with Economics Index

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