{"product_id":"the-calculus-of-consent-logical-foundations-of-constitutional-democracy-9780865972186","title":"The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Calculus of Consent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many books and academic enterprises throughout their careers. As Robert D. Tollison states in the foreword, \" this book] is a radical departure from the way democracies conduct their business. The Calculus is already a book for the ages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis classic work analyzes the political organization of a free society through the lens of the economic organization of society. The authors acknowledge their unease as economists in analyzing the political organization, but they take the risk of forging into unfamiliar territory because they believe the benefits of their perspective will bear much fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the authors state, their objective in this book is \"to analyze the calculus of the rational individual when he is faced with questions of constitutional choice. . . . We examine the  choice] process extensively only with reference to the problem of decision-making rules.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors describe their approach as \"economic individualism.\" They believe that economists have explored individual choice extensively in the market sector while social scientists have largely ignored the dynamics of individual decision-making in the dynamics of forming group action in the public sector.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in the early 1960s, \u003cem\u003eThe Calculus of Consent\u003c\/em\u003e has become a bulwark of the public choice movement for which James M. Buchanan is so justly famous.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames M. Buchanan\u003c\/strong\u003e (1919-2013) was an eminent economist who won the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 and was considered one of the greatest scholars of liberty in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-46755\"\u003eJames M. Buchanan\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3297877\"\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865972186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865972184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL007000\"\u003ePolitical Ideologies | Democracy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS069000\"\u003eEconomics | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42683410743533,"sku":"9780865972186","price":16.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_577cf450-420f-4525-93c3-92da2746f9a1.jpg?v=1649743638","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-calculus-of-consent-logical-foundations-of-constitutional-democracy-9780865972186","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}