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 2018, 'Political Obligations: Is Debt Special?', in Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E Wagner (ed.), Debt Default and Democracy, Edward Elgar Publishing, United States, pp. 36-50pp.
• Baurmann, M & Brennan, G 2016, 'On Virtue Economics', in Jennifer A. Baker and Mark D. White (ed.), Economics and the Virtues: Building a New Moral Foundation, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 119-141.
• Brennan, G & Sayre-McCord, G 2016, 'Voting and Causal Responsibility', in (ed.), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Anthology, Oxford University Press, New York, United States of America, pp. 499-513pp.
• Brennan, G 2016, 'The Church on Tax Reform?', St Mark's Review: A Journal of Christian Thought and Opinion, vol. 235, pp. 1-7.
• Brennan, G, Eriksson, L, Goodin, R and N Southwood, 2016 Explaining Norms, Oxford: Oxford University Press (paperback).
• Brennan, G 2015, 'Olson and imperceptible differences: the Tuck critique', Public Choice, vol. 164, no. 3-4, pp. 235-250.
• Brennan, G 2015, 'Liberty, Preference Satisfaction, and the Case against Categories', in Iwao Hirose & Andrew Reisner (ed.), Weighing & Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 11-30pp.
• Brennan, G 2015, 'Buchanan's anti-conservatism', Public Choice, vol. 163, no. 1-2, pp. 7-13.
• Brennan, G & Hamlin, A 2014, 'Comprehending Conservatism: Frameworks and Analysis', Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 227-239.
• Brennan, G & Munger, M 2014, 'The Soul of James Buchanan?', The Independent Review, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 331-342.
• Anomaly, J & Brennan, G 2014, 'Social Norms, the Invisible Hand, and the Law', QUT Law Review (University of Queensland Law Review), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 263-283.
• Brennan, G 2014, 'HET: A Double Lament', History of Economics Review, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 50-63.
• Brennan, G 2014, 'Hayek's Conservatism: The Possibility of a Conservative Liberal', The Ordo yearbook of economic and social order, vol. 65, pp. 331-344.
• Brennan, G 2014, 'What's to be explained? And is it so Bad?', in M Thornton (ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 65-78.
• Brennan, G & Brooks, M 2014, 'Rational Choice Approaches to Leadership: The dog that does not bark?', in R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul 't Hart (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 161-175.
• Brennan, G & Brooks, M 2013, 'Buchanan on Freedom', in Lee, Dwight R (ed.), Public Choice, Present and Future (2nd ed), Springer, USA, pp. 43-64.
• Brennan, G & Anomaly, J 2013, 'Markets and Economic Theory', in Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications Inc, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 578-580.
• Brennan, G & Brooks, M 2013, 'Expressive Voting', in L.Razzolini, M. Reksulak and W. Shughart II (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice (2nd ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 111-126.
• Brennan, G & Hamlin, A 2013, 'Conservatism and radicalism', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 173-176.
• Brennan, G 2013, 'James Buchanan: in memoriam OBITUARY', Public Choice, vol. 156, no. 1-2, pp. 1-5.
• Brennan, G 2013, 'FEASIBILITY IN OPTIMIZING ETHICS', Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 30, no. 1-2, pp. 314-329.
• Brennan, G 2012, 'Politics-as-exchange and The Calculus of Consent', Public Choice, vol. 152, no. 3-4, pp. 351-358.
• Brennan, G 2012, 'The political economy of public debt', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 182-198.
• Brennan, G 2012, 'Keeping Company with Seabright', Biological Theory, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 106-112.
• 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.
• Baurmann, M, Brennan, H, Goodin, R and Southwood, N eds, 2010, Norms and Values, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Germany.
• 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, Güth, 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, G 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, G & 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, G 2008, 'Behavioural Economics and Public Policy', Australian Government/Productivity Commission Roundtable, ed. Conference Program Committee, Productivity Commission, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 131-151.
• Brennan, G 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, G, 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, G & 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, G 2007, 'Discounting the Future, Yet Again', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 259-284.
• Brennan, G 2007, 'The Grammar of Rationality', in Fabienne Peter and Hans Bernhard Schmid (ed.), Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 105-123.
• Brennan, G & 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, G & 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, G & 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, G 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, G 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, G & Hamlin, A 2006, 'Conservatism, idealism and cardinality', Analysis, vol. 66, no. 292, pp. 286-295.
• Brennan, G & 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, G & 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 (Nomos publishing house), Baden-Baden, pp. 93-118.
• Brennan, G & Lomasky, L 2006, 'Against reviving republicanism', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 221-252.
• 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 2005, 'Review essay: The Myth of Ownership Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 207-219.
• Brennan, G & 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, G 2004, 'Life in the Putty-Knife Factory!', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 79-104.
• Brennan, G & 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, G & Hamlin, A 2004, 'Analytic Conservatism', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, no. 04, pp. 675-691.
• Brennan, G & 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, G & 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, G 2003, 'Diversas Formas de Democracia', Quorum Magazine (In Spanish), vol. 7, pp. 39-49.
• Brennan, G, 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, G & 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, G 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, G & Pettit, P 2002, 'Power Corrupts, but can office enoble?', Kyklos, vol. 55, pp. 157-178.
• Brennan, G & Hamlin, A 2002, 'Expressive Constitutionalism', Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 13, pp. 299-311.
• Brennan, G 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, G 2001, 'Five Rational Actor Accounts of the Welfare State', Kyklos, vol. 54, pp. 213-233.
• Brennan, G & 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, G 2001, 'Collective Coherence?', International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 21, pp. 197-211.
• Goodin, R & Brennan, G 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, G & Pettit, P 2000, 'The Hidden Economy of Esteem', Economics and Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 77-98.
• Brennan, G & 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, G & Hamlin, A 2000, Democratic Devices and Desires, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K..
• Brennan, G & 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, G 1999, 'Public Choice and Public Finance, The Place of Tax Reform Advocacy', Finanzarchiv, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
• Brennan, G & Hamlin, A 1999, 'On Political Representation', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 109-127.
• Brennan, G & Mitchell, N 1999, 'The Logic of Spatial Politics: The 1998 Queensland Election', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 379-390.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• Political Normativity and the Feasibility Requirement (Secondary Investigator)
• Norms, Reasons and Values (Secondary Investigator)