Professor Geoffrey Brennan

ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

E: Geoffrey.Brennan@anu.edu.au

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Areas of expertise

Political Theory And Political Philosophy 160609
Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) 220314
Public Policy 160510
Australian Government And Politics 160601
Constitutional Law 180108
Comparative Government And Politics 160603
Taxation Accounting 150107
Environmental Philosophy 220303
Welfare Economics 140219
Ethical Theory 220305
Social Philosophy 220319
Public Economics Public Choice 140213
Macroeconomic Theory 140102
Public Economics Taxation And Revenue 140215
Heterodox Economics 149903
Economic Theory 1401

Publications

Brennan, G & Brooks, M 2011, 'On the 'cashing out' hypothesis and 'soft' and 'hard' policies', European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 601-610.
Brennan, G & Pincus, J 2010, 'Fiscal equity in federal systems', Review of Law and Economics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 347-363.
Brennan, G 2010, 'Climate hopes: pious and otherwise', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 5-7.
Brennan, G 2010, 'Hume's/Sugden's Psychopathy?', in Michael Baurmann, Geoffrey Brennan, Robert E. Goodin and Nicholas Southwood (ed.), Norms and Values: The Role of Social Norms as Instruments of Value Realization, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Germany, p. 9.
Brennan, G 2010, 'PPE: An institutional view', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 379-397.
Brennan, G 2010, 'The Division of Epistemic Labour', Analyse and Kritik, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 231-246.
Brennan, G, Hamlin, A & Kliemt, H 2010, 'PPE: An appraisal', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 363-365.
Baurmann, M & Brennan,G 2009, 'What should the voter know? Epistemic trust in democracy', Grazer Philophische Studien, vol. 79, pp. 159-186.
Brennan, G & Brooks, M 2009, 'Revenue Risk and Revenue Timing: a view from rational choice politics', Australian Tax Forum, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 89-109.
Brennan, G 2009, 'Hobbes's Samuel', Public Choice, vol. 141, no. 1, pp. 5-12.
Brennan, G 2009, 'Politics, Selection and the Public Interest; Besley's benevolent despot', Review of Austrian Economics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 131-143.
Brennan,G & Waterman, A, eds, 2008, Are Economists Basically Immoral? and other Essays on Economics, Ethics and Religion, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis.
Brennan, G 2008, 'Market failure; compared to what?', Ethics and Economics (Ethique et Economique), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-6.
Brennan, G, GÃ¼th, W & Kliemt, H 2008, 'Approximate Truth in Economic Modelling', Homo Oeconomicus, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 263-282.
Brennan, G, ed., 2006, Preconditions of Democracy, Tampere University Press. TUP, Finland.
Brennan, H 2005, 'Introduction: The European Constitution and the Distribution of Power', in G. Brennan (ed.), Coercive Power and its Allocation in the Emergent Europe, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK, pp. 1-17.
Brennan, G, ed., 2005, Coercive Power and Its Allocation in the Emergent Europe, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK.
Brennan,G & Pincus, J 2005, 'Fiscal Equalisation: Some Questions of Design', in G. Brennan (ed.), Coercive Power and its Allocation in the Emergent Europe, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK, pp. 77-103.
Brennan, G 2009, 'Climate change: a rational choice politics view', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 309-326.
Brennan, H & Eusepi, G 2008, 'Introduction [European Journal of Law and Economics]', European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 26, pp. 233-235.
Brennan, G 2008, 'Lessons for Ethics from Economics', in Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Philosophical Issues: Interdisciplinary Core Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, USA, pp. 249-271.
Brennan, H 2008, 'Behavioural Economics and Public Policy', Australian Government/Productivity Commission Roundtable, ed. Conference Program Committee, Productivity Commission, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 131-151.
Brennan, H 2008, 'Crime and Punishment: An Expressive Voting View', European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 237-252.
Brennan, G 2008, 'Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus: An Introduction', Public Choice, vol. 137, no. 3/4, pp. 429-438.
Brennan, H, Gonzalez, L, Guth, W et al 2008, 'Attitudes toward private and collective risk in individual and strategic choice situations', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 253-262.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2008, 'Revisionist Public Choice Theory', New Political Economy, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 77-88.
Brennan, G 2008, 'The Economy of Privacy: Institutional Design in the Economy of Esteem', The Monist, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 23-51.
Brennan, G & Waterman, A 2008, 'Christian Theology and Economics: Convergence and Clashes', in I. Harper and S. Gregg (ed.), Christian Theology And Market Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, pp. 77-93.
Brennan, G & Kliemt, H 2008, 'Regulation and Revenue', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 249-260.
Brennan, G 2008, 'Psychological Dimensions in Voter Choice', Public Choice, vol. 137, pp. 475-489.
Brennan, G & Brooks, M 2007, 'Esteem-based Contributions and Optimality in Public Goods Supply', Public Choice, vol. 130, no. 3-4, pp. 457-470.
Brennan, G 2007, 'Economics', in Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, & Thomas Pogge (ed.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 118-152pp.
Brennan, H 2007, 'Discounting the Future, Yet Again', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 259-284.
Brennan, H 2007, 'The Grammar of Rationality', in Fabienne Peter and Hans Bernhard Schmid (ed.), Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 105-123.
Brennan, H & Brooks, M 2007, 'Esteem, Norms of Participation and Public Goods Supply', in Pio Baake and Rainald Borck (ed.), Public Economics and Public Choice: Contributions in Honor of Charles B. Blankart, Springer, Germany, pp. 63-79.
Brennan, H & Kliemt, H 2007, 'The Power to Regulate', in Bernhard Neumarker, Claus Schnael (ed.), Ordnungspolitik fur den Offentlichen Sektor, Metropolis-Verlag, Germany, pp. 41-62.
Brennan, G, Goodin, R, Jackson, F et al, eds, 2007, Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit, Oxford University Press, United States.
Brennan, H & Southwood, N 2007, 'Feasibility in Action and Attitude', in T Ronnow-Rasmussen, B Petersson, J Jonefsson, D Egonsson (ed.), Hommage a Wlodek: Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz, Unknown, www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek, pp. only published online.
Brennan, H 2006, 'The Requirements of a Constitutional Culture: Playing by the Rules', in Geoffrey Brennan (ed.), Preconditions of Democracy - The Tampere Club Series vol. 2, Tampere University Press. TUP, Finland, pp. 91-104.
Brennan, H 2006, 'Introduction', in Geoffrey Brennan (ed.), Preconditions of Democracy - The Tampere Club Series vol. 2, Tampere University Press. TUP, Finland, pp. 9-16.
Brennan, G, ed., 2006, Social and Cultural Preconditions of Democracy, Tampere University Press. TUP, Finland.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2006, 'Conservatism, idealism and cardinality', Analysis, vol. 66, no. 292, pp. 286-295.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2006, 'Constitutions as expressive documents', in B Weingast, D Wittman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 329-341.
Brennan, H & Baurmann, M 2006, 'Majoritarian inconsistency, arrow impossibility and the comparative interpretation: a context-based view', in Christoph Engel/Lorraine Daston (ed.), Is there value in inconsistency?, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, pp. 93-118.
Brennan, H & Lomasky, L 2006, 'Against reviving republicanism', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 221-252.
Brennan, H & Pincus, J 2005, 'Fiscal Equalisation: Some Questions of Design', in G. Brennan (ed.), Coercive Power and its Allocation in the Emergent Europe, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK, pp. 77-103.
Brennan, H 2005, 'Review essay: The Myth of Ownership Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 207-219.
Brennan, H & Pettit, P 2005, 'The Feasibility Issue', in Frank Jackson and Michael Smith (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 258-282.
Brennan, H 2004, 'Life in the Putty-Knife Factory!', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 79-104.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2004, 'The European Constitution and Peace: Taking the heat out of politics', in Charles B. Blankart and Dennis c. Mueller (ed.), A Constitution for the European Union, MIT Press, USA, pp. 1-24.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2004, 'Analytic Conservatism', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, no. 04, pp. 675-691.
Brennan, H & Eusepi, G 2004, 'Fiscal Constitutionalism', in Jurgen G. Backhaus & Richard E. Wagner (ed.), Handbook of Public Finance, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, pp. 53-76.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2004, 'An Introduction to the Status Quo', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 127-132.
Brennan, G & Pettit, P 2004, The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society, Oxford University Press, New York, United States.
Brennan, H 2003, 'Diversas Formas de Democracia', Quorum Magazine (In Spanish), vol. 7, pp. 39-49.
Brennan, H, Gueth, W & Kliemt, H 2003, 'Trust in the Shadow of the Courts', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 16-36.
Brennan, H & Pincus, J 2002, 'Australia's Economic Institutions', in Geoffrey Brennan and Francis G. Castles (ed.), Australia Reshaped, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 53-85.
Brennan, H 2002, 'Some Democratic Propensities for Extreme Results', in Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronal Wintrobe (ed.), Political Extremism and Rationality, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 89-104.
Brennan, H & Pettit, P 2002, 'Power Corrupts, but can office enoble?', Kyklos, vol. 55, pp. 157-178.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2002, 'Expressive Constitutionalism', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 13, pp. 299-311.
Brennan, H 2002, 'Public finance, public choice and the political economy of regulation', in Winer, Stanley L. and Hirofumi Shibata (ed.), Political Economy and Public Finance, Edward Elgar Publishing, England, pp. 13-30.
Brennan, G & Hamlin, A 2001, 'Republican Liberty and Resilience', The Monist, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 45-59.
Brennan, H 2001, 'Five Rational Actor Accounts of the Welfare State', Kyklos, vol. 54, pp. 213-233.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2001, 'Constitutional Choice', in William F. Shugart 11, Laura Razzolini (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 117-139.
Brennan, H 2001, 'Collective Coherence?', International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 21, pp. 197-211.
Goodin, R & Brennan, H 2001, 'Bargaining over Beliefs 1st Edition', Ethics: an International journal of social, political and legal philosophy, vol. 111, no. January, pp. 256-277.
Brennan, G 2000, 'Is There a Duty to Vote? (2000)', Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 62-86.
Brennan, H & Pettit, P 2000, 'The Hidden Economy of Esteem', Economics and Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 77-98.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2000, 'Nationalism and federalism: The political constitution of peace', in Galeotti, G.; Salmon, P.; Wintrobe, R. (ed.), Competition and Structure, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 259-283.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2000, Democratic Devices and Desires, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K..
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 2000, 'Paying for Politics', in Shapiro, I.; Macedo, S. (ed.), Designing Democratic Institutions, New York University Press, New York, USA, pp. 55-74.
Brennan, H 1999, 'Public Choice and Public Finance, The Place of Tax Reform Advocacy', Finanzarchiv, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
Brennan, H & Hamlin, A 1999, 'On Political Representation', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 109-127.
Brennan, H & Mitchell, N 1999, 'The Logic of Spatial Politics: The 1998 Queensland Election', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 379-390.

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