Economics, governance, and law : essays on theory and policy / Warren J. Samuels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Essay on Government and Governance 1 -- 2. The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 39 -- 3. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality 61 -- 4. Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of Economic Thought: An Interpretive Essay 81 -- 5. An Essay on the Unmagic of Norms and Rules and of Markets 95 -- 6. Theories of Property 103 -- 7. Property and Philosophy 111 -- 8. Population Density and the Positive Theory of Property 119 -- 9. Some Problems in the Use of Language in Economics 123 -- 10. The Problem of Double Taxation 135 -- 11. Walter Adams and James W. Brock's The Tobacco Wars: The Final Shot of a Warrior for Competitive Markets and -- Responsible Government 141 -- 12. The Economic Role of Government As, In Part, A Matter of Selective Perception, Sentiment and Valuation: The Cases -- of Pigovian and Paretian Welfare Economics (with Steven G. Medema) 151 -- 13. Buchanan and Musgrave on Public Finance and Public Choice: A Review Essay 171 -- 14. An Essay on Paretian Fraud, Constitutions and Revolution 183.