The Soul of James Buchanan?

摘要

We learned many things from Jim Buchanan. Among the more important is that titles should be felicitous. Ours here is ambitious, perhaps presumptuous, even slightly mischievous (as we shall shortly explain). Our point of departure is Buchanan's paper published in this journal thirteen years ago. In that sense, the leap from "The Soul of Classical Liberalism" (Buchanan 2000b) to the soul of one of classical liberalism's chief expositors and defenders strikes us as natural-and may even meet the felicity test!