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Title of Journal: Public Choice
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Abbravation: Public Choice
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Authors: Pierre Salmon
Publish Date: 2012/07/25
Volume: 152, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 299-302
Abstract
Even if my wife had not pointed it out I am aware that readers may not find information about me particularly interesting But the current exercise seems to require some of it I will assume that the trajectory of my progressive recognition of the explanatory relevance of The Calculus of Consent may be of some value in illustrating one pattern of its influenceI bought a paperback copy of the Calculus in June 1967 Two or three years earlier I had bought a twovolume paperback copy of Karl Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies These books probably were recommended to me by some friends possibly Daniel Pilisi for Popper and Alain Wolfelsperger for Buchanan and Tullock We were a small group of young economists more open than most French economists of the time to economic literature in English to modeling to Friedman’s methodology and to the virtues of competitive markets Some of us were also interested in the philosophy of science When in London at the LSE Harry Johnson
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