Virginia School of Political Economy II: The Continuing Relevance of Public Choice

Over the next few months, Hayek Program Senior Fellow Jayme Lemke will be sharing a series of conversations with her colleagues about the core ideas and methods that drive the research of the Hayek Program. For the second part of this series, Lemke interviews Senior Fellow Donald Boudreaux on one of these core approaches: the Virginia School of Political Economy.
In this discussion, Lemke and Boudreaux discuss the continuing relevance of public choice insights for economics today.
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[@aleksandar1724]

While that might be true, I have seen too many left minded people approach public choice, which is a valuable tool for understanding and influencing politics, in a similar way as right wingers when you mention class analysis. Ideology and methodology are not the same, and if cultural hegemony theory can be used by the right why cannot Public choice be tool of some use for the left.

[@kengreen7219]

Because the theory's a fraud, and progressives don't need to used fraudulent, pseudo-academic theories to make their point; to use any analysis based on this transparently fraudulent metaphysic would put the progressive movement in disrepute.