Thinker

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher whose Leviathan (1651) justified an absolute sovereign through a social-contract argument from the insecurity of a condition without government.

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TheoryConstitutional political economyThe economic study of rules, founded by Buchanan and Tullock's The Calculus of Consent (1962): constitutions are judged by whether individuals could agree to them as the framework for later political choice.

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