Money And Markets: Essays In Honor Of Leland B. Yeager (routledge Foundations Of The Market Economy)

Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the 'Virginia School' of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement. A number of top class contributors have here been brought together to produce a festschrift in Yeager’s honor – edited by Roger Koppl, and including the aforementioned Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, David Colander, Deirdre McCloskey and Roger Garrison. A zeal for the truth / Roger Koppl The Yeager mystique A profile of the scholar as teacher and colleague / William Breit, Kenneth Elzinga, and Thomas D. Willett The Virginia renaissance in political economy The 1960s revisited / James M. Buchanan Leland, a personal appreciation / Gordon Tullock Monopoly politics and its unsurprising effects / James C. Miller Good ideas and bad regressions The sad state of empirical work in public choice / Steven B. Caudill Pluralism, formalism and American economics / Harry Landreth and David C. Colander Leland's favourite economists / Jürgen G. Backhaus The genesis of an idea Classical economics and the birth of monetary disequilibrium theory Michael R. Montgomery The macroeconomics of money, saving, and investment / Robert L. Greenfield No-name money / Maria Minniti and Lidija Polutnik Monetary disequilibrium theory and Austrian macroeconomics : further thoughts on a synthesis / Steven Horwitz Reflections on reswitching and roundaboutness / Roger W. Garrison Leland yeager's utilitarianism as a guide to public policy / Randall G. Holcombe Ethnic conflict and the economics of social cooperation : reflections on a difficult problem / Laurence S. Moss The legacy of Bismarck Gordon Tullock. A number of top class contributors including James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, David Colander, Deirdre McCloskey and Roger Garrison have been brought together to produce a festschrift in honor of important and celebrated economist, Leland Yeager