Presidential address Fourteen years of European Public Choice Society research
✍ Scribed by Charles B. Blankart
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 646 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-5829
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
It is the task of the president of a society like ours to report in his opening address at the yearly meeting on the state of the art. This can be done in several ways. Last year I chose a specific topic, the economic theory of constitutions (Blankart, 1986). This year I shall discuss the progress we have made in our community, the European Public Choice Society, and I shall place this work in the general perspective of research in public choice.1
In order to analyze a scientific discipline such as public choice, it is helpful to apply a distinction made by Kuhn (1962) in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It is the distinction between paradigms and normal science. I shall first speak about the paradigm used in public choice research (Part 2) and then proceed to analyze the achievements of normal science and the work done within the European Public Choice Society (Part 3). Part 4 is devoted to the organization of the European Public Choice Society.