Voigt (German Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) examines the possibility of a positive constitutional economics and attempts to establish the steps working up a research program for it. With an emphasis on analyzing how societies choose their constitutional rules, how such constitutions emerge using the economic approach, and how constitutions change over time, this volume i organized into two major parts The first part (Chapters two through four) evaluates existing literature and develops the research program of positive constitutional economics in more detail. The second part (Chapters five through nine) aims to sketch out the possibilities of working the program up.
