James M. Buchanan’s research while affiliated with George Mason University and other places

... Thus, we do not see a decrease of tax morale in the 1980s and the 1990s. These fi ndings are in line with the argument of Buchanan ( 1999 ) , who states that the "temperature of taxpayers" in the 1980s and the 1990s is quite low after the years of taxpayers' revolts in the late 1970s. ...

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Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes in the USA: An Empirical Analysis

... Vielmehr gibt es neben solchen Situationen, in denen die betroffenen Adressaten tatsächlich nicht reguliert werden wollen, auch solche, in denen die Adressaten durchaus an einer Regulierung interessiert sind. Dies ist vor allem dann der Fall, wenn diese Regulierung es ihnen ermöglichen würde, ihre Märkte in der Gegenwart und in der Zukunft gegen Konkurrenten zu schützen (Stigler 1971: 5;Buchanan/Tullock 1975;Baggott 1986: 62;Engel 1998: 181;Bizer/Jülich 1999: 62). In der Regel gibt es neben der regulierten Industrie auch andere Industriezweige, die von einer Regulierung profitieren können, so etwa, wenn eine Regulierung (wie in Deutschland besonders verbreitet) bestimmte Umweltschutztechniken vorschreibt, die von einem Zweig der Anlagenindustrie hergestellt werden (z.B. ...

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Warum kooperiert der Staat? Kooperative Umweltpolitik im Schatten der Hierarchie

... The use of models for assessing the relative impact of variables is commonplace in the economic literature (Blaug 1980). Buchanan and Tullock (1972) conceptually compared the impacts of direct controls and taxes in terms of pollution abatement. Friedman's (1971) work on the economics of the common pool and much of the literature on the harvesting of biological resources (Anderson 1977, Oasqupta andHeal 1979) make use of conceptual models in the comparison of controls. ...

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Groundwater right protection and aquifer development management [microform] : administrative approaches in the western United States /

... In "Moral Community, Moral Order, or Moral Anarchy", Buchanan (2001) extended the argument to show that moral communities to a greater extent, and moral orders to a lesser extent, share moral commitments, hence departing from the strict individual autonomy assumption of economic rationality. Secondly, in his collaboration with Yong J. Yoon (Buchanan 2005;Buchanan and Yong 2015), Buchanan examined the benefits of increasing returns in the theory of international trade. Under those assumptions, individual autonomy may be bypassed because coordinated activity creates increasing returns. ...

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James M. Buchanan and Frank H. Knight on democracy as “government by discussion”

... 16 Buchanan (2001d16 Buchanan ( [1988, p. 141): "Wicksell's objective was to construct a criterion for efficiency in fiscal decisions, by which he meant the satisfaction of the demands of individuals, as consumers of collectively financed goods and services, analogous to the satisfaction of consumer demands in the competitive market for private goods and services. In Hutt's later terminology, Wicksell was seeking to establish institutional requirements that would ensure that the principle of consumers' sovereignty is met through governmental provision of goods and services, alongside the operation of the market or private sector." 17 Buchanan ( [1989a, p. 29): "I am a methodological and normative individualist"; Buchanan ( [1987a, p. 9): "Methodological individualism… is almost universally accepted by economists who work within mainstream… traditions. A philosophical complement of this position that assumes a central role in Constitutional Economics is much less widely accepted and is often explicitly rejected. ...

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J. M. Buchanan’s contractarian constitutionalism: political economy for democratic society

... Recursos móviles tienen la posibilidad de abandonar jurisdicciones, cuyos gobiernos efectúan comportamientos inadecuados. La competencia por ingresos locales, impiden a las jurisdicciones a imponer tasas o reglamentos gravosos (Buchanan, 1995;Weingast, 1995). ...

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La Descentralización fiscal. Una introducción

... Unfortunately, leaders of such groups have a strong personal incentive to lobby for political favors despite the harm it does to those they represent, and can do so by exploiting the internal, or principal-agent, prisoners' dilemma their members face. And these leaders can provide a justifying cover for their lobbying by claiming it is necessary to 4 For more detailed discussions of this point in the U.S. and European context, see Lee (1985) and Buchanan and Lee (1994), respectively. respond appropriately to the external prisoners' dilemma their members also face. ...

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Leadership, Prisoners' Dilemmas, and Politics

... Dieses "soziale Modell", so schrieb schon vor 20 Jahren ein amerikanischer Nobelpreisträger für Ökonomie, hielten zwar viele Europäer gegenüber den schmalbrüstigen Wohlfahrtsstaaten in der liberalen Welt für überlegen, es sei aber im 21. Jahrhundert weder ökonomisch lebensfähig noch demokratisch fundiert (Buchanan 1998). Selbst neuere, etwa von der Weltbank vorgelegte Studien sehen in "beispielloser Jobsicherheit, generösen Leistungen für Arbeitslose und leicht zugänglichen Renten" das Kennzeichen europäischer Sozialstaatlichkeit, die es zu überwinden gelte, wenn Europa wettbewerbsfähig bleiben und seinem Vollbeschäftigungsziel näher kommen wolle (Gill et al. 2013). ...

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Europa in Arbeit: Plädoyer für eine neue Vollbeschäftigung durch inklusives Wachstum

... On the importance of strategic courage in Buchanan's samaritan's dilemma, seeSkarbek (2016),Goodman and Herzberg (2020),Dughera and Marciano (2022) 17 In "Afraid to Be Free: Dependency as Desideratum"(Buchanan 2005), Buchanan referred to the individuals' incapacity to assume the responsibility for their actions or choices that necessarily goes with freedom. The similarity with the incapacity to assume the responsibility that goes with benevolence, or with samaritanism, is strinking. ...

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Sado-Masochism in Buchanan's Samaritan's Dilemma. A Constitutional Perspective

... People may accept a loss now for a gain at some future time and opt to revise the status quo. Moreover, logrolling has an important connection with Buchanan's later work on rotating majorities with Yong Yoon because, again, political exchange is spread over time (Buchanan and Yoon, 2015). When the effects of policies are considered over time, it becomes possible that even if some are harmed at a point in time, the damage will fade because losers in an earlier policy regime become winners in a later policy situation. ...

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Correcting imposed institutions: default and reparations?