Public choice and political philosophy

摘要

That economists gladly embrace public choice theory is not hard to explain-indeed, to explain using the precepts of public choice itself. Economics is an imperialist discipline that has extended the range of its theorizing from comparative pricing of deer and beaver to markets for spouses, rational criminal behavior, and the comparative return to Batting Averages versus On Base Percentages. That it should also plant a flag in the landmass of politics and claim it in the name of homo economicus is entirely in character.