First edition. 8vo. x, 437, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. A very fine copy. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
An expansive collection of thirty-one papers and articles written over a thirty year period by the Nobel prize winning economist James M. Buchanan, tracing his development of constitutional economics paradigm. ‘The modern Constitutional Economics of James Buchanan, like the classical political economics of Adam Smith, urges the economist to inquire how the rules of the political order and other institutional constraints under which the economy operates affect economic processes’ (p. viii, preface).
