The limits of liberty
by James M. Buchanan · first published 1975
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…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 theory of government akin to a utility-maximizing theory of an economic actor.…
on “Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us” ↗> “Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves,” he wrote in his 1975 book, The Limits of Liberty. > Does that sound like your kindergarten teacher? It did to Buchanan. My primary recollection of K-6 was teachers shrieking "Just Say No!" Or policing what we said, what we did off school time, what…
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