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Explaining Norms by Geoffrey Brennan 9780198748205
Booksplease Price: £39.49Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive... -
Explaining Norms by Geoffrey Brennan 9780199654680
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £57.65Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive... -
Democratic Devices and Desires by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521639774
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book offers an account of key features of modern representative democracy. Working from the rational actor tradition, it builds a middle ground between orthodox political theory and the economic... -
Democratic Devices and Desires by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521630207
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £56.03This book offers an account of key features of modern representative democracy. Working from the rational actor tradition, it builds a middle ground between orthodox political theory and the economic... -
The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution by Geoffrey Brennan
Booksplease Price: £13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972308Author James BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy by Geoffrey Brennan 9780865972315
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972315Author James BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521070904
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, rather like the rules of the road, coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work... -
The Power to Tax: Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521233293
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £62.23Should government's power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California's Proposition 13 brought this question very sharply into popular focus. Whether the power to tax... -
Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521330404
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.95Do voters in large scale democracies reliably vote for the electoral outcomes most in their interest? Much of the literature on voting predicts that they do, but this book argues that fully rational... -
The Power to Tax: Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521027922
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Should government's power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California's Proposition 13 brought this question very sharply into popular focus. Whether the power to tax... -
The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution by Geoffrey Brennan 9780865972292
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972292Author James BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
Australia Reshaped: 200 Years of Institutional Transformation by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521520751
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.47Australia Reshaped is the capstone volume in the Reshaping Australian Institutions series. As the summation of all that has gone before, this book is structurally and qualitatively different from the... -
The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society by Geoffrey Brennan 9780199246489
Booksplease Price: £57.25However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity: there is no way that I can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others my good opinion of them. But though it is a non-tradable... -
Australia Reshaped: 200 Years of Institutional Transformation by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521817493
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £76.51Australia Reshaped is the capstone volume in the Reshaping Australian Institutions series. As the summation of all that has gone before, this book is structurally and qualitatively different from the... -
The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society by Geoffrey Brennan 9780199289813
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £41.85However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity-- there is no way that you can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others your good opinion of them. And yet esteem is allocated... -
Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference by Geoffrey Brennan 9780521585248
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.96Do voters in large scale democracies reliably vote for the electoral outcomes most in their interest? Much of the literature on voting predicts that they do, but this book argues that fully rational... -
The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics: Values, Markets and the State by Geoffrey Brennan 9781848446540
Booksplease Price: £111.10This book makes a rational and eloquent case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. It expands upon themes concerned with esteem, self-esteem, emotional bonding between agents,... -
The Good Polity: Normative Analysis of the State Alan Hamlin (University of Southampton) 9780631158042
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.41This volume presents a set of new essays by leading economists, philosophers and political scientists concerned with the normative underpinnings of the state. "The Good Polity" is devoted to the... -
Economics and Ethics? by Peter Groenewegen 9781138865853
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34In December 1994, social scientists from the fields of economics, philosophy, political science and anthropology attended a workshop to discuss the current state of the economics-ethics nexus by way... -
Integrity and Agreement: Economics When Principles Also Matter by Lanse Minkler 9780472116430
Booksplease Price: £78.90"Two impressive features of this book are its clarity of purpose and the breadth of disciplinary resources to which it appeals."---Geoffrey Brennan, Professor of Economics, Australian National... -
The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect by Philip Pettit 9780198801306
Booksplease Price: £32.42Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the... -
The Limits of Economic Science: Essays on Methodology by Richard B. McKenzie 9780898381160
Booksplease Price: £90.56The essays in this volume were a challenge to me to write. I am an economist to the core, inclined to evaluate most observed behavior and public policies with conventional neoclassical theory. The... -
The Limits of Economic Science: Essays on Methodology by R. B. McKenzie 9789400974234
Booksplease Price: £91.98The essays in this volume were a challenge to me to write. I am an economist to the core, inclined to evaluate most observed behavior and public policies with conventional neoclassical theory. The... -
Coercive Power and its Allocation in the Emergent Europe by G. Brennan 9781403987440
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book provides a comprehensive analysis on the design of institutions for the new Europe. Addressing critical issues such as the appropriate distribution of political powers, the next step in the... -
Designing Democratic Institutions: Nomos XLII by Stephen Macedo
Booksplease Price: £105.41As the principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, it is hard to imagine a corner of the globe into which they will not eventually penetrate. But the euphoria of... -
Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit by Michael Smith 9780199218165
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £99.73During a career spanning over thirty years Philip Pettit has made seminal contributions in moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of mind and action,... -
Market Capitalism and Moral Values: Proceedings of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993 by Samuel Brittan 9781858980805
Booksplease Price: £116.18Does economic analysis need to incorporate a more rounded and ethical view of individuals? What is the ethical status of market capitalism? How should ethical and economic considerations be weighed... -
Beyond Conventional Economics: The Limits of Rational Behaviour in Political Decision Making by Giuseppe Eusepi 9781845426637
Booksplease Price: £106.02Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the... -
Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome by Iwao Hirose 9780199684908
Booksplease Price: £96.38John Broome has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with philosophical analysis. Broome's... -
Political Economy and Public Finance: The Role of Political Economy in the Theory and Practice of Public Economics by Stanley L. Winer 9781843761181
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.17There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a... -
Political Economy and Public Finance: The Role of Political Economy in the Theory and Practice of Public Economics by Stanley L. Winer 9781843760733
Booksplease Price: £116.18There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a... -
The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections on the VPI Center by Joseph C. Pitt 9781405124539
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.61This 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... -
The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections on the VPI Center by Joseph C. Pitt 9781405124522
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £88.98This 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... -
Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan by Paul Dragos Aligica
Booksplease Price: £41.78James M. Buchanan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986, was a pioneer of public choice and constitutional political economy, as well as contributing to many fields of study, including... -
On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit 9781107005112
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.59According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public... -
On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.52According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public... -
How Do You Know?: The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge by Russell Hardin 9780691137551
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally--against my... -
Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath by Daniel Halliday
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.12Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also... -
Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath by Daniel Halliday 9780198803355
Booksplease Price: £28.91Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also... -
Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences by Herbert Obinger 9780521611848
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.74In this unique and provocative contribution to the literatures of political science and social policy, ten leading experts question prevailing views that federalism always inhibits the growth of...