Billy Foster, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics at
Quotations
If all men were equal in interest and in endowment, natural or artificial, there would be no organized economic activity to explain. Each man would be a Crusoe. Economic theory thus explains why men co-operate through trade. They do so because they are different.
— James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent (1962)
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Here I briefly explain what my latest research project is about and where it is headed.
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