|
|
Article: When hard heads collide: a philosopher encounters public choice.
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
I
Introduction
IN THE 1970s POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY HAD BEGUN TO ENJOY a renaissance among tough-minded analytical philosophers who previously had scorned it as second cousin to preaching and propagandizing. In part this reinvigoration was a response to real-world events. Civil rights aspirations that had somehow metamorphosed into riots and assassinations, the bottomless quagmire in Southeast Asia, university campuses on the brink of anarchy or just past it: these rather insistently placed calls on the resources of philosophy that went beyond inquiries into subtleties of language and logic. The timing could not have been more propitious for the appearance ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Public Goods, Public Enterprise and Public Choice: ...
Policy Studies Journal;
December 22, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... disciplinary territory. It is the debate over public choice theory. This important debate has ... there is a much greater likelihood that public choice theory (and theorists) may be called ... proper role of the state, akin to public choice arguments, already are being advanced ...
|
|