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This chapter recalls the traditions of thought which public choice theory seeks to replace. Whatever you want to know about government, we think you can find out more and understand it better without monocausal blinkers. Whatever your social purposes, we think they can be better served within the established intellectual traditions, or by inventive thought of like insight and complexity, than by exclusively economic simplifications of politics.
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The role of imagined alternatives in causal analysis is discussed at greater length in H. Stretton, The Political Sciences (1969) pp. 238–69, 432–4, and in L. Orchard and R. Dare (eds), Markets, Morals and Public Policy (1989) pp. 252–9, from which parts of the present chapter are drawn.
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Stretton, H., Orchard, L. (1994). How to Think Instead: The Resources of Political Theory. In: Public Goods, Public Enterprise, Public Choice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23505-6_8
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