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I shall try to show Buchanan’s discourse, based inter alia, on catallactics (the science of exchanges) intertwined with spontaneous order and coordination and acceptation of all processes of voluntary agreement, on the one hand, and on the other hand, on homo economicus, which basically sees individuals as seeking their own self-interest, combined with politics as an exchange paradigm (in which politics is a complex exchange process fully analogous to the market).
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Buchanan, James. M: Liberty, market and state. Political economy in the 1980s., New York University Press, 1985, p. 50.
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Urbina, S. (1996). The Latest Buchanan; Efficiency and Ethics. In: Reason, Democracy, Society. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2846-1_6
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