Table of Contents

Introduction, Donald J. Boudreaux, Christopher J. Coyne, Bobbi Herzberg
Part I – Interdisciplinary Foundations
1. A Smithian Critique of James M. Buchanan’s Constitutional Contractarianism, Malte Dold / 2. Towards a More “Tocquevillian” Social Science: Family, Gender, Loyalty and Virtue in Modern Democratic Associationalism, Sarah Jane Wilford / 3. Coping with Complexity: A Theory of Hayekian Interventionism, Alexander Schaefer / 4. The Entanglement of Public Bureaucratic Institutions: Their Interactions with Society, Culture, Politics, and the Economy, Jan P. Vogler / 5. The Conception of Taxation: The Romantic versus Realistic Point of View, Charles Delmotte
Part II – Interdisciplinary Applications
6. Warning Out, Settlement Laws, and Managing Poor-Relief CPRs in the Tocquevillian Township, Bob Kaminski / 7. Polycentricity and Transnational Environmental Governance: A Comparison of Literatures, James Heilman / 8. Dispute Avoidance through International Regulatory Cooperation: A Public Choice Approach, Inu Manak / 9. The Role of Experts and Intellectuals in Designing the Post-Conflict Iraqi Constitution, Jozef Andrew Kosc
About the Authors

About the Author

Donald J. Boudreaux is a Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Mercatus Center Board Member, and a professor of economics and former economics-department chairman at George Mason University.

Christopher J. Coyne is the F. A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.

Bobbi Herzberg is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program in Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Reviews

"Interdisciplinarity" has become a noise, rather than an analytic concept. What a pleasure it is to see a real interdisciplinary effort, and on an important set of topics. Interdisciplinary work is when a scholar who has mastered an approach applies it in a new and interesting way. This book contains a number of genuinely important chapters, and all the chapters are worth reading. The reason the work is important is that no one approach can explain how institutions begin, survive, or change. But this one book shows these questions can be answered, and in ways that are interesting and fun to read.
*Michael C. Munger, Director of PPE Program, Duke University*

The public choice tradition began two generations ago, set in motion by such scholars as James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, and Vincent Ostrom. While public choice has clearly ossified through maturation, these nine essays by freshly-minted scholars point the way toward a possible reinvigoration of public choice by incorporating new multidisciplinary insights into the study of a society’s political order.
*Richard E. Wagner, Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University*

Interdisciplinary Studies of the Political Order integrates important insights from the Austrian, Bloomington, and Virginia Political Economy schools of thought. The young scholars, whose work is collected in this volume, push our understanding of both the interrelated foundations of these schools of thought and how to apply the insights to a variety of contemporary issues.
*Benjamin Powell, Director of the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University*