Richard Edward Wagner (born April 28, 1941) is an American economist. He is professor emeritus of

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

George Mason University George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...

. He works primarily in the fields of

public finance Public finance refers to the monetary resources available to governments and also to the study of finance within government and role of the government in the economy. Within academic settings, public finance is a widely studied subject in man ...

public choice Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science."Gordon Tullock, 9872008, "public choice," ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics''. . It includes the study of po ...

, and

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. Wagner received his doctorate in economics from the

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, studying under James M. Buchanan. Wagner's work centers on the notion that macroeconomic phenomena are emergent, rather than being objects of choice, and the relationship between

Systems theory Systems theory is the Transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, de ...

and Economics. In addition to Buchanan, major influences on his thought include

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, G. L. S. Shackle and

Thomas Schelling Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Coll ...

Selected publications

* ''The Fiscal Organization of American Federalism'' (1971) * "Revenue Structure, Fiscal Illusion, and Budgetary Choice" in ''Public Choice'' vol. 25, no. 1 (1976) * "Institutional Constraints and Local Community Formation" in ''American Economic Review'' vol. 66, no. 2 (1976) * '' Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes'' (co-authored with Buchanan) (1977) * ''Public Finance: Revenues and Expenditures in a Democratic Society'' (1983) * ''To Promote the General Welfare: Market Processes vs. Political Transfers'' (1989) * ''The Economics of Smoking'' (co-authored with

Robert Tollison Robert D. Tollison (1942–October 24, 2016) was an American economist who specialized in public choice theory. Education A native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Tollison attended local Wofford College where he earn ...

) (1991) * "Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform" (co-authored with Tollison) in ''Kyklos'' vol. 44, no. 1 (1991) * ''Trade Protection in the United States'' (co-authored with Charles Rowley and Willem Thorbecke) (1995) * ''Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance'' (2007) * ''Mind, Society and Human Action: time and knowledge in a theory of social-economy'' (2010) * "A macro economy as an ecology of plans" in ''Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization'' vol. 82, no. 2-3 (2012) * ''Politics as a Peculiar Business: Insights from a theory of entangled political economy'' (2016) * ''Macroeconomics as

Systems Theory Systems theory is the Transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, de ...

'' (2020)Wagner, R.E. (2020). ''Macroeconomics as systems theory''. Springer International Publishing
External link.

References

Richard E. Wagner's CV at GMU

External links

* Richard E. Wagner
"Public Choice and the Diffusion of Classic Italian Public Finance"
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