Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2018
College/Unit
College of Business and Economics
Document Number
18-09
Department/Program/Center
Economics
Abstract
Anglo-American jurisprudence emphasizes the rule of reason; it grossly neglects the reason of rules. We play socioeconomic-legal-political games that can be described empirically only by their rules. But most of us play without an understanding or ap-preciation of the rules, how they came into being, how they are enforced, how they can be changed, and most important, how they can be normatively evaluated. (Bren-nan and Buchanan, 1985, preface).
Digital Commons Citation
Congleton, Roger, "Towards a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus" (2018). Economics Faculty Working Papers Series. 2.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/econ_working-papers/2