April, 2015
The Past, Present and Future of Virginia Political Economy
Peter J. Boettke
Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and EconomicsAlain Marciano
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.We present a short history of the Virginia School of Political Economy in its institutional settings of University of Virginia (UVA), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech (VPI), and George Mason University (GMU). We discuss the original research and educational project as envisioned by Buchanan at UVA, its maturity into a normal science at VPI, and its continuation at GMU. We argue that the future of Virginia Political Economy will depend critically on the various alternative interpretations of the Buchanan project in positive economics, welfare economics, and political economy.
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