David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart

Towards an Economics of Natural Equals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428972
• ISBN-10: 1108428975
• Artikelnr.: 56875725

Autorenporträt

David M. Levy is Professor of Economics at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, Virginia. He has published four scholarly books and over ninety journal articles. His most recent book with Sandra J. Peart, Escape from Democracy: The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy (Cambridge, 2016), applies analytical egalitarianism to expert economists.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why the Virginia School of Political Economy matters
2. James Buchanan and the return to an economics of natural equals
3. 'Almost wholly negative': an early reaction to the Virginia School
4. 'The economics of Universal Education' and after: from Friedman to Rawls
5. Virginia political economy and public choice economics
6. The individuals and their connections
7. The role of the Earhart Foundation in the Early Virginia School
8. The early Virginia School and the anti-democratic right
9. Neoliberalism, the Virginia School, and the Geldard Report
10. Conclusion: should the Virginia School be restored?