Richard E. Wagner
Entangled Political Economist
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED
The Fiscal Organization of American Federalism. Chicago: Markham, 1971, pp. 119.
The Public Economy. Chicago: Markham, 1973, pp. 240.
Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (with James M. Buchanan). New York: Academic Press, 1977, pp. 195.
Inheritance and the State: Tax Principles for a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1977, pp. 95.
Public Finance: Revenues and Expenditures in a Democratic Society. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983, pp. 490.
Smoking and the State: Social Costs, Rent Seeking, and Public Policy (with Robert D. Tollison). Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1988, pp. 123.
To Promote the General Welfare: Market Processes vs. Political Transfers. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 1989, pp. 239.
The Economics of Smoking (with Robert D. Tollison). Boston: Kluwer Nijhoff, 1991, pp. 253.
Trade Protection in the United States (with Charles K. Rowley and Willem Thorbecke). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1995, pp. 348.
Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 228.
Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 208.
Deficits, Debt, and Democracy: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 194.
Politics as a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2016, pp. 234.
James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2017, pp. 209.
Public Debt: An illusion of Democratic Political Economy (with Giuseppe Eusepi). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2017. Pp. 178.
Macroeconomics as Systems Theory: Transcending the Micro-Macro Dichotomy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 313.
Rethinking Public Choice. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022, pp. 184.
Rethinking Economics as Social Theory. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022, pp. 199.
Reason and Ideology within an Entangled System of Political Economy (with Meg Tuszynski). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. 290.
PAMPHLETS AND OTHER OCCASIONAL ITEMS
Public Debt in a Democratic Society (with James M. Buchanan). Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1967, pp. 71.
Death and Taxes: Some Perspectives on Inheritance, Inequality, and Progressive Taxation. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1973. Pp. 63.
The Consequences of Mr. Keynes (with James M. Buchanan and John Burton). London: Institute of Economic affairs, 1978, pp. 94.
The Tax-Expenditure Budget: An Exercise in Fiscal Impressionism. Washington: Tax Foundation, 1979.
Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and the Constitution (with Robert D. Tollison). Washington: Cato Institute, 1980, pp. 49.
The Federal Budget Process: Why it is Broken and How It Can Be Fixed. Tallahassee, FL: James Madison Institute, 1988.
Federal Transfer Taxation: A Study in Social Cost. Washington: Instituter for Research in the Economics of Taxation, 1993, pp. 49.
Who Benefits from WHO? The Decline of the World Health Organization (with Robert D. Tollison). The Social Affairs Unit, 1993, pp. 33.
Parchment, Guns, and Constitutional Order. Hants, UK: Edward Elgar, 1993, pp. 75.
Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy. Hants, UK: Edward Elgar, 1996, pp. 57.
Taxation and the Price of Civilization: An Essay on Federal Tax Reform. Washington: National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 1998, pp. 37.
State Excise Taxation: Horse-and-Buggy Taxes in an Electronic Age. Washington: Tax Foundation, 2005, pp. 20.
American Federalism: How Well Does it Support Liberty? Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center Research Monograph, 2014, pp. 40.
Public Debt and the Corruption of Contract: Excising the Keynesian Cancer. Milan: Bruno Leoni Institute, 2017, pp. 160.
Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance: Overcoming a Category Mistake and its Vices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 68.
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS EDITED
Perspectives on Tax Reform. New York: Praeger, 1974, pp. 321.
Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy (with James M. Buchanan). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978, pp. 180.
Policy Analysis and Deductive Reasoning (with Gordon Tullock). Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1978, pp 201.
Government Aid to Private Schools: Is It a Trojan Horse? Wichita, KS: Center for Independent Education, 1979.
Public Choice and Constitutional Economics (with James D. Gwartney). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988, pp. 422.
Charging for Government: User Charges and Earmarked Taxes in Principle and Practice. London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 198.
Limiting Leviathan (with Donald P. Racheter). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999, pp. 268.
Federalist Government in Principle and Practice (with Donald P. Racheter). Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 297.
Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law (with Donald P. Racheter). Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 272.
Handbook of Public Finance (with Jürgen G. Backhaus). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2004, pp. 554.
Debt Default and Democracy (with Giuseppe Eusepi). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 202.
James M. Buchanan: A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 1182.
Realism, Ideology, and the Convulsions of Democracy (with Marta Podemska-Mikluch and Mikayla Novak). Berlin: Springer, 2023, pp. 148.
ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
Pressure Groups and Political Entrepreneurs: A Review Article. Public Choice 1 (Fall 1966): 161-70.
Optimality in Local Debt Limitation. National Tax Journal 23 (September 1970: 297-305.
Optimality in Local Debt Limitation: Reply. National Tax Journal 24 (March 1971): 109-11.
Politics, Bureaucracy, and Budgetary Choice: A Review of the Brooking’s Budget for 1974. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 16 ((August 1974): 367-83.
The Antisocial Activities of the Public Sector. The Banker 125 (December 1975): 1503-11.
Competition, Monopoly, and the Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas (with Warren E. Weber). Journal of Law and Economics 18 (December 1975): 661-84.
Revenue Structure, Fiscal Illusion, and Budgetary Choice. Public Choice 25 (Spring 1976): 45-81.
Institutional Constraints and Local Community Formation. American Economic Review, Proceedings, 66 (May 1976): 110-15.
Rational Models, Politics, and Policy Analysis (with Gordon Tullock). Policy Studies Journal 4 (Summer 1976): 408-16.
Wagner’s Law, Fiscal Institutions, and the Growth of Government (with Warren E. Weber. National Tax Journal30 (March 1977): 314-19.
Tax Policy toward Private Foundations: Confused Principles and Unfortunate Legislation. Policy Studies Journal 5 (Spring 1977): 314-19.
Revenue Structure, Fiscal Illusion, and Budgetary Choice: Reply. Public Choice 29 (Spring 1977): 131-32.
Economic Manipulation for Political Profit: Macroeconomic Consequences and Constitutional Implications. Kyklos 30 (no. 3, 1977): 395-410.
Dialogues Concerning Fiscal Religion (with James M. Buchanan). Journal of Monetary Economics 4 (July 1978): 627-36.
Carl Menger’s Contributions to Economics: Introduction. Atlantic Economic Journal 6 (September 1978): 1-2.
Carl Menger’s Contribution to Economics: Final Remarks. Atlantic Economic Journal 6 (September 1978): 65-69.
The Institutional Framework for Municipal Incorporation: An Economic Analysis of Local Agency Formation Commissions in California (with Delores T. Martin). Journal of Law and Economics 21 (October 1978): 409-25.
The Tax Reform Fraud (with Paul Craig Roberts). Policy Review (Summer 1979): 121-39.
Spending Limitation, the Constitution, and Productivity: A Response to James Tobin. Journal of Contemporary Studies 3 (Winter 1980): 59-67.
Sense versus Sensibility in the Taxation of Personal Wealth. Canadian Taxation: A Journal of Tax Policy 2 (Spring 1980): 23-30.
Boom and Bust: The Political Economy of Economic Disorder. Journal of Libertarian Studies 4 (Winter 1980): 1-37.
Funded Social Security: Collective and Private Options. Cato Journal 3 (Fall 1983): 581-602.
On Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy. Policy Studies Journal 12 (December 1983): 251-57.
A Reconsideration of some Principles of Tax Reform. Florida Policy Review 1 (Spring 1985): 13-18.
Tax Reform through Constitutional Limitation: A Sympathetic Critique. Cumberland Law Review 15 (no. 2, 1985): 475-97.
Normative and Positive Foundations of Tax Reform. Cato Journal 5 (Fall 1985): 385-99.
The Experimental Search for Free Riders: Some Reflections and Observations (with Thomas S. McCaleb). Public Choice 47 (no. 3, 1985): 479-90.
Wealth Transfers in a Rent-seeking Polity. Cato Journal 6 (Spring/Summer 1986): 155-71.
Rationalization versus Explanation in the Political Economy of Wealth Transfers. Florida Policy Review 2 (Summer 1986): 30-37.
Central Banking and the Fed: A Public Choice Perspective. Cato Journal 6 (Fall 1986): 519-38.
James M. Buchanan: Constitutional Political Economist. Regulation 11 (February 1987): 13-17.
The Cameralists: A Public Choice Perspective (with Jürgen G. Backhaus). Public Choice 53 (no. 1, 1987): 3-20.
Courts, Legislatures, and Constitutional Maintenance. Cato Journal 7 (Fall 1987): 323-29.
The Public Choice Revolution (with James D. Gwartney). Intercollegiate Review 23 (Spring 1988): 17-26.
The Calculus of Consent: A Wicksellian Retrospective. Public Choice 56 (February 1988): 153-66.
Morals, Interests, and Constitutional Order. Oregon Law Review 67 (no. 1, 1988): 73-92.
Social Cost, Rent Seeking, and Smoking (with Robert D. Tollison). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 6 (December 1988): 171-86.
Constitutional Order in a Federal Republic. Public Choice 61 (May 1989): 187-92.
Politics, Central Banking, and Economic Order. Critical Review 3 (Summer/Fall 1989): 11-22.
Choosing Freedom: Public Choice and the Libertarian Idea (with Charles K. Rowley). Liberty 3 (January 1990): 43-45.
Regulatory Finance in Alternative Models of Regulation: General Fund Financing versus Earmarked Taxes (with Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Robert D. Tollison). European Journal of Political Economy 6 (no. 4, 1990): 519-29.
Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform (with Robert D. Tollison). Kyklos 44 (no. 1, 1991): 57-70.
Self Interest, Public Interest, and Public Health (with Robert D. Tollison). Public Choice 69 (no. 3, 1991): 323-43.
The Logic of Natural Monopoly Regulation (with Robert D. Tollison). Eastern Economic Journal 17 (no. 4, 1991): 483-90.
Public Debt Controversies: An Essay in Reconciliation (with Karen I. Vaughn). Kyklos 45 (no. 1, 1992): 57-70.
Grazing the Budgetary Commons: The Rational Politics of Budgetary Irresponsibility. Journal of Law and Politics 9 (Fall 1992): 105-19.
Crafting Social Rules: Common Law vs. Statute Law, Once Again. Constitutional Political Economy 3 (Fall 1992): 381-97.
The Impending Transformation of Public Choice Scholarship. Public Choice 77 (1993): 203-12.
A Competitive Federalism for the New Century. Madison Review 1 (Fall 1995): 34-40.
Who Chooses What, and for Whom? Public Debt, Ricardian Equivalence, and Governmental Form. Review of Austrian Economics 9 (nol. 2, 1966): 143-57.
Federal Transfer Taxation: The Effect on Saving, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Dissipation. Family Business Review 9 (Fall 1996): 169-83.
Choice, Exchange, and Public Finance. American Economic Review, Proceedings 67 (May 1997): 160-63.
Smoking, Insurance, and Social Cost (with Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison). Regulation 20 (Summer 1997): 33-37.
Politics, Public Capital, and the Structure of Production (with Mark Crain). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 15 (no. 1, 1997): 3-24.
Social Democracy, Societal Tectonics and Parasitical Pricing. Constitutional Political Economy 9 (no. 2, 1998: 105-11.
Austrian Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat while Discarding the Chaff. Review of Austrian Economics 12 (no. 1, 1999): 65-80.
Understanding the Tobacco Settlement: The State as a Partisan Plaintiff. Regulation 22 (no. 4, 1999): 38-41.
A Bipartisan Declaration of Independence from Death Taxation (with Edward J. McCaffrey). Tax Notes 88 (no. 6, 2000): 801-14.
Competition as a Rivalrous Process: Attilio da Empoli and the Years of High Theory that Might Have Been. Journal of Economic Studies 28 (no. 4/5 2001): 337-45.
Complexity, Governance, and Constitutional Craftsmanship. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 61 (January 2002): 105-22.
Custom, Legislation, and Market Order. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 61 (April 2002): 563-69.
Some Institutional Problematics of Excess Burden Analytics. Public Finance Review 30 (November 2002): 531-45.
Institutions, Emergence, and Macro Theorizing: A Review Essay on Roger Garrison’s Time and Money (with Ryan D. Oprea). Review of Austrian Economics 16 (no. 1, 2003): 97-109.
Happy Anniversary? Ninety Years of the Income Tax. The World and I (April 2003): 28-33.
Public Choice and the Diffusion of Classic Italian Public Finance. Il pensiero economico italiano 11 (no. 1, 2003): 271-82.
Polycentric Public Finance and the Organization of Governance. European Journal of Management and Public Policy 2 (2002): 3-15.
Public Choice as an Academic Enterprise: Charlottesville, Blacksburg, and Fairfax Retrospectively Viewed. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 63 (January 2004): 55-74.
Inefficient Market Pricing: An Illusory Economic Box (with Kevin Brancato). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 22 (2004): 3-13.
Self-Governance, Polycentrism, and Federalism: Recurring Themes in Vincent Ostrom’s Scholarly Oeuvre. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 57 (2005): 173-88.
From Continental Public Finance to Public Choice: Mapping Continuity (with Jürgen G. Backhaus). History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement 37 (2005): 314-32.
Continental Public Finance: Mapping and Recovering a Tradition (with Jürgen G. Backhaus). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 23 (2005): 43-67.
States and the Crafting of Souls: Mind, Society, and Fiscal Sociology. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 59 (2006): 516-24.
Choice, Catallaxy, and Just Taxation: Contrasting Architectures for Fiscal Theorizing. Social Philosophy and Policy 23 (2006): 235-54.
Retrogressive Regime Drift within a Theory of Emergent Order. Review of Austrian Economics 19 (2006): 113-23.
Katrina and the Social Organization of Disaster Recovery: Dissolving a Theoretical Antinomy. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 24 (2006): 143-61.
The Organizational Architecture of Nonprofit Governance: Economic Calculation within an Ecology of Enterprises (with Monica Auteri). Public Organization Review 7 (2007): 57-68.
Value and Exchange: Two Windows for Economic Theorizing. Review of Austrian Economics 20 (2007): 97-103.
Finding Social Dilemma: West of Babel, not East of Eden. Public Choice 135 (2008): 55-66.
Polycentricity, Political Economy, and the Welfare State. Public Finance and Management 8 (2008): 141-67.
From Scholarly Idea to Budgetary Institution: The Emergence of Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Michael D. Makowsky). Constitutional Political Economy 20 (2009): 57-70.
Elections as Take-over Bids: Some Agonistics Concerning Good Government. Review of Austrian Economics 22 (2009): 145-50.
Spontaneous Order and Positive Legislation: Ruminating on Daniel Shapiro’s Justification of the Welfare State. Review of Austrian Economics 23 (2010): 97-102.
Heterogeneity, Voting, and the Political Economy of Public Policy (with Adam Martin). Public Finance and Management 9 (2009): 393-415.
Polycentric Polity: Genuine vs. Spurious Federalism (with Giuseppe Eusepi). Review of Law and Economics 6 (2010): 329-45.
Raising vs. Leveling in the Social Organization of Welfare. Review of Law and Economics 6 (2010): 421-39.
Change within Permanence: Time and the Bivalent Language of Economic Analysis. Advances in Austrian Economics 14 (2010): 181-203.
Entangled Political Economy and the Two Faces of Entrepreneurship (with Marta Podemska-Mikluch). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 28 (2010): 99-114.
Choice, Emergence, and Constitutional Process: A Framework for Positive Analysis (with Petrik Runst). Journal of Institutional Economics 7 (2011): 131-45.
A Theory of Entangled Political Economy, with Applications to TARP and NRA (with Adam Smith and Bruce Yandle). Public Choice 148 (2011): 45-66.
States as Ecologies of Political Enterprises (with Giuseppe Eusepi). Review of Political Economy 23 (2011): 573-85.
Municipal Corporations, Economic Calculation, and Political Pricing: Exploring a Theoretical Antinomy. Public Choice 149 (2011): 151-65.
Spontaneous Order, Liberty, and Austrian Economics. Studies in Emergent Order 4 (2011): 209-23.
A Macro Economy as an Ecology of Plans. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 82 (2012): 433-44.
The Institutional Framework for Shared Consumption: Deemphasizing Taxation in the Theory of Public Finance. Public Finance and Management 12 (2012): 5-20.
Indebted State versus Intermediary State: Who Owes What to Whom? (with Giuseppe Eusepi). Constitutional Political Economy 23 (2012): 199-212.
Rationality, Political Economy, and Fiscal Responsibility: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons. Constitutional Political Economy 23 (2012): 261-77.
The Calculus of Consent: A Compass for my Professional Journey. Public Choice 152 (2012): 393-96.
Viennese Kaleidics: Why It’s Liberty more than Policy that Calms Turbulence. Review of Austrian Economics25 (2012): 283-97.
Remembering Bill Niskanen: Pursuing Economics as a Public Science in the Service of Liberty. Public Choice153 (2012): 1-7.
The Social Construction of Theoretical Landscapes: Some Economics of Economic Theories. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 71 (2012): 1185-1204.
Democracy and the Theory of Public Finance: A Polycentric, Invisible-hand Framework. Public Finance and Management 12 (2012): 298-325.
Public Finance without Taxation: Free Riding as Institutional Artifact. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 30 (2012): 191-202.
Political Entrepreneurship and the Formation of Special Districts (with Alexander Fink). European Journal of Law and Economics 35 (2013): 427-39.
Tax Prices in a Democratic Polity: The Continuing Relevance of Antonio de Viti de Marco (with Giuseppe Eusepi). History of Political Economy 45 (2013): 99-121.
What Kind of State in Our Future? Fact and Conjecture in Vito Tanzi’s Government versus Markets. Review of Austrian Economics 267 (2013): 93-104.
Legal Entrepreneurship within a System of Entangled Political Economy (with Shruti Rajagopalan). American Journal of Entrepreneurship 6 (2013): 24-36.
Constitutional Craftsmanship and the Rule of Law (with Shruti Rajagopalan). Constitutional Political Economy24 (2013): 295-309.
James M. Buchanan and Me: Reminiscing about a 50-Year Association. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 31 (2013): 43-59.
Taxation as a Quasi-market Process: Explanation, Exhortation, and the Choice of Analytical Windows (with David Hebert). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 31 (2013): 163-77.
Polycentrism, Federalism, and Liberty: A Comparative Systems Perspective (with Akira Yokoyama). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 31 (2013): 179-97.
Form vs. Substance in Selection through Competition: Elections, Markets, and Political Economy (with Deema Yazigi (Shamoun)). Public Choice 159 (2014): 503-14.
Default without Capital Account: The Economics of Municipal Bankruptcy (with Lota Moberg). Public Finance and Management 14 (2014): 30-47.
James Buchanan’s Public Debt Theory: A Rational Reconstruction. Constitutional Political Economy 25 (2014): 253-64.
Game Theory and the Architecture of Social Theory: Reflections on Luigino Bruni’s Ethos of the Market. Studies in Spontaneous Order 7 (2014): 225-38.
Richard Epstein’s Classical Liberal Constitution: A Public Choice Refraction. New York University Journal of Law and Liberty 8 (2014): 961-90.
Entangled Political Economy: A Keynote Address. Advances in Austrian Economics 18 (2014): 15-36.
Design vs. Emergence in a Theory of Federalism: Toward Institutional Reconciliation. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 32 (2014): 197-213.
Virginia Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction. Public Choice 163 (2015): 15-29.
Welfare Economics and Second-Best Theory: Filling Imaginary Economic Boxes. Cato Journal 35 (2015): 133-46.
Neutral Money: Historical Fact or Analytical Artifact? (with Simon Bilo). Review of Austrian Economics 28 (2015): 139-50.
Gordon Tullock: A Conspectus on His Life’s Work. History of Economic Ideas 23 (2015): 11-21.
From Mixed Economy to Entangled Political Economy: A Paretian Social-theoretic Orientation (with Meg Patrick-Tuszynski). Public Choice 164 (2015): 103-16.
Volatility in Catallactical Systems: Austrian Cycle Theory Revisited (with James Caton). Advances in Austrian Economics 19 (2015): 95-117.
Treating Macro Theory as Systems Theory: How Might It Matter? (with Vipin P. Veetil). Advances in Austrian Economics 19 (2015): 119-43.
The Peculiar Business of Politics. Cato Journal 36 (Fall 2016): 535-56.
Vilfredo Pareto’s Theory of Action: An Alternative to Behavioral Economics (with Rosolino Candela). Il pensiero economico italiano 24 (2016): 15-29.
New Austrian Macro Theory: A Call for Inquiry (with Paul Lewis). Review of Austrian Economics 30 (2017): 1-18.
Economic Coordination across divergent Institutional Frameworks: Dissolving a Theoretical Antinomy (with Marta Podemska-Mikluch). Review of Political Economy 29 (2017): 249-66.
The Autonomy of the Political in Political Economy (with Ion Sterpan). Advances in Austrian Economics 22 (2017): 133-57.
James M. Buchanan and the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice: Extending the Italian Tradition of Public Finance. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 33 (2018): 5-17.
Trade, Power, and Political Economy: Reason vs. Ideology in Edward Stringham’s Private Governance. Review of Austrian Economics 31 (2018): 245-55.
Nominal GDP Stabilization: Chasing a Mirage (with Vipin P. Veetil). Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance 67 (2018): 227-36.
Gordon Tullock’s Scholarly Legacy: Extracting It from Buchanan’s Shadow. Independent Review 23 (Fall 2018): 187-207.
Political Entrepreneurship, Emergent Dynamics, and Constitutional Politics (with Alexander Salter). Review of Social Economy 76 (2018): 253-67.
Political Parties: Insights from a Tri-Planer Model of Political Economy (with David Hebert). Constitutional Political Economy 29 (2018): 253-67.
Bankruptcies, Bailouts, and some Political Economy of Corporate Reorganization (with Dylan DelliSanti). Journal of Institutional Economics 14 (2018): 833-51.
Inequality within a System of Entangled Political Economy: Reflections on Mikayla Novak’s Disentanglement of Fact and Value. Cosmos & Taxis 6 (2019): 32-39.
Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-ended Social Order (with Alexander Salter). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 34 (2019): 83-94.
Arrogance and Humility in the Governance of Human Interaction: A Reflection on Roger Koppl’s Expert Failure. Cosmos & Taxis 7 (2019): 57-62.
The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice: A Masterful Compendium. Constitutional Political Economy 30 (2019): 467-79.
Governance within a System of Entangled Political Economy. Forest Policy and Economics 107 (October 2019): article 101918.
Private-public Partnership as Remedy for Crumbling Infrastructure: Is this Hope Looking for Reason? Journal of Infrastructure, Policy, and Development 3 (2019): 233-43.
American Democracy and the Problem of Fiscal Deficits. Public Policy Review (Ministry of Finance of Japan) 15 (2019): 199-216.
Economic Theory and “The Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship. Journal of Contextual Economics 139 (nos. 2-4, 2019): 407-20.
Economic Coordination in Environments with Incomplete Pricing (with Paul Dragos Aligica). Review of Austrian Economics 33 (2020): 315-29.
Pandemic Politics within a System of Entangled Political Economy (with Marta Podemska-Mikluch). Journal of Contextual Economics 140 (2020): 87-109.
Giuseppe Eusepi: A Courageous and Cheerful Countenance for the Ages. Public Choice 186 (2021): 7-8.
Economics, Covid-19, and the Entangled Political Economy of Public Health. Independent Review 25 (Spring 2021): 1-13.
Systems-theoretic LawMacro: An antidote to Keynesian indigestion? Journal of Contextual Economics/Schmollers Jahrbuch 142 (2022): 209-29.
State-Market Entanglement: Some Implications for the Theory of Public Finance (with Zachary Kessler). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 37 (2022): 193-210.
Ethics as a Topic of Economic Inquiry: The Social-Theoretic Context (with Jonathan Plante). Journal of Private Enterprise, 38 (2023): 29-48.
Deconstructing Public Debt: Who Owes What to Whom? Homo Oeconomicus 40 (2023): 5-17.
James M. Buchanan and Public Debt: Introducing a Special Issue (with Andrew Farrant and Marianne Johnson). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 40 (2025):m 143-49.
Integrating Rationality and Spiritedness to Correct a Misleading Dichotomy (with Sarah Moore). Review of Austrian Economics 38 (2025): 59-71.
ARTICLES IN SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The Efficiency Basis for Federal Fiscal Equalization (with James M. Buchanan). In The Analysis of Public Output, ed. by Julius Margolis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, pp. 139-58.
Conscription, Voluntary Choice, and Democratic Fiscal Choice. In The Theory of Public Choice, ed. by James M. Buchanan and Robert D. Tollison. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972, pp. 136-52.
The Division of Responsibility for Housing Policy in a Federal System of Government. In Housing in the Seventies, Vol. 1, Department of Housing and Urban Development. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977, pp. 474-83.
Death, Taxes, and Charitable Bequests: A Survey of Issues and Options. In Research Papers Sponsored by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs. Vol. IV, “Taxes.” Washington: U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1977, pp. 2337-53.
American Education and the Economics of Caring. In Parents, Teachers, and Children: Prospects for Choice in American Education. San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1977, pp. 111-25.
Some Aspects of Tax Policy toward Private Philanthropy. In Policy Analysis and Deductive Reasoning, ed. by Gordon Tullock and Richard E. Wagner. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1978, pp. 77-92.
Advertising and the Public Economy: Some Preliminary Ruminations. In The Political Economy of Advertising, ed. by David G. Tuerck. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 19078, pp. 81-100.
Contemporary Democracy and the Prospects for Fiscal Control: Initial Thoughts about and Final Reactions to the Conference (with James M. Buchanan). In Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy, ed. by James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978, pp. 1-8.
The Political Biases of Keynesian Economics (with James M. Buchanan). In Fiscal Responsibility in Constitutional Democracy, ed. by James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978, pp. 79-100.
State Aid to Private Education: Curse or Blessing, and for Whom? In Government Aid to Private Schools: Is It a Trojan Horse? ed. by Richard E. Wagner. Wichita, KS: Center for Independent Education, 1979, pp. 38-46.
Forward to Stephen C. Littlechild, The Fallacy of the Mixed Economy. San Francisco: Cato Institute, 1978, pp. xi-xiv.
Politics, Monetary Control, and Economic Performance. In Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium, ed. by Mario J. Rizzo. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1979, pp. 177-86.
Forward to Paul Whiteley, ed. Models of Political Economy. London: Sage, 1980, pp. 1-6.
Public Choice, Monetary Control, and Economic Disruption. In Models of Political Economy, ed. by Paul Whiteley. London: Sage, 1980, pp. 201-20.
Finanzpolitik in der Demokratie: Eine Neo-Kameralistische Einschatzung der Zeitgenossischen Haushaltswirtschaft (with Jürgen G. Backhaus). Appendix to Zum Wirtschaftsrecht den Funktionen und Rechtsformen öffentlicher Unternehmen (Frankfurt: Haag und Herchen, 1980, pp. 457-84.
Federal Aid to State and Local Governments. In Agenda for Progress, ed. by Eugene McAllister. Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1980, pp. 303-15.
The Enterprise System, Democracy, and the General Welfare: An Approach to Reconciliation. In Essays in Supply Side Economics, ed. by David G. Raboy. Washington: Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, 1982, pp. 93-118.
Estate Gift Duty and the Family. In Taxing the Family, ed. by Rudolph G. Penner. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1983, pp. 127-33.
Democracy and the Market Economy: A Contradiction for Liberal Society? In Free Enterprise: 15 Commentaries, ed. by Burt Elwert. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983, pp. 67-71.
The Political Economy of the Sheltered Sector. In The Sheltered Sector, the Use of Resources, and Inflation, ed. by Karl Brunner. Rochester, NY: Center for Research in Government Policy and Business, 1983, pp. 7-28.
Christianity and the Problem of Political Economy: One Economist’s Ruminations. In Economics, Theology, and the Social Order, ed. by Ronald W. Hansen. Rochester, NY: Center for Research in Government Policy and Business, 1986, pp. 23-45.
The Welfare State, Capital Formation, and Tax-Transfer Politics. In Taxation and the Deficit Economy, ed. by Dwight R. Lee. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1986, pp. 241-73.
Limiting Government Spending: Alternative Constitutional Perspectives. In The Growth of Government, ed. by Karl Brunner. Rochester, NY: Center for Research in Government Policy and Business, 1986, pp. 5-24.
The Agent-Principal Relationship in the Public Sector. In The Growth of Government, ed. by Karl Brunner. Rochester, NY: Center for Research in Government Policy and Business, 1986, pp. 37-53.
Liability Rules, Fiscal Institutions, and Public Debt. In Deficits, ed. by James M. Buchanan, Charles K. Rowley, and Robert D. Tollison. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 199-217.
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