caa a22 4500 606168443 CHVBK 20210128100707.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-014-0193-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-014-0193-z Wagner Richard Department of Economics, 3G4, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA aut Virginia political economy: a rational reconstruction [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Wagner] Recognition of a distinctive style of political economy denoted as Virginia political economy appeared early in the 1960s. It is common though not universal to identify a school of thought by the academic location of the main figures associated with the creation and propagation of a particular set of ideas. By this approach, Virginia political economy is associated with the three academic venues where James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock did most of their work. This paper takes a methodological approach to identifying Virginia political economy, which gives Virginia political economy an analytical rather than a regional identity. I do this by employing a form of rational reconstruction to articulate what I perceive to be the analytical hard core of Virginia political economy. While Buchanan and Tullock were pivotal characters in the development of Virginia political economy, that hard core is neither reducible to Buchanan and Tullock nor do they convey fully that hard core as is has arisen through scholarly interaction among many people over 50years. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Virginia political economy nationallicence Rational reconstruction nationallicence Methodology of scientific research programs nationallicence Interacting agents nationallicence Emergent dynamics nationallicence Liberalism vs. progressivism nationallicence Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/1-2(2015-04-01), 15-29 0048-5829 163:1-2<15 2015 163 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0193-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0193-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wagner Richard Department of Economics, 3G4, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/1-2(2015-04-01), 15-29 0048-5829 163:1-2<15 2015 163 11127