The calculus of consent

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• vezzy-fnord · Dec 14, 2015 · Recommends

  …bound on heterogeneous consumer preferences.) That said, I do have some reading recommendations. James M. Buchanan was an eminent economist and political theoretician. I'd recommend his classic The Calculus of Consent co-written with Gordon Tullock, supplemented with his own The Limits of Liberty and Costs and Choice. William A. Niskanen wrote Bureaucracy and Representative Government presenting a budget-maximizing…

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• nabla9 · Jul 21, 2019 · Recommends

  …statistics, game theory, etc. to analyze politics. The old classics: - The Theory of Political Coalitions (1962) by William H. Riker - Social Choice and Individual Values (1952) by Kenneth Arrow. - The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1962) by Buchanan and Tullock

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