When hard heads collide: a philosopher encounters public choice.

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

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Introduction

IN THE 1970s POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY HAD BEGUN TO ENJOY a renaissance among tough-minded analytical philosophers who previously had scorned it as second cousin to preaching and propagandizing. In part this reinvigoration was a response to real-world events. Civil rights aspirations that had somehow metamorphosed into riots and assassinations, the bottomless quagmire in Southeast Asia, university campuses on the brink of anarchy or just past it: these rather insistently placed calls on the resources of philosophy that went beyond inquiries into ...

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