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Friday, July 31st, 2020
Should constitutional economists’ attention be turned to political philosophy? An argument for epistemic imperialism
Some of the main proponents of constitutional economics consider this spin-off from public choice to be a research program, following Lakatos. In this paper I intend to show how constitutional economics can avoid becoming a degenerating program by focusing on its normative dimension. More specifically, I argue that the lessons...
