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Megan M Gunderson
This biography introduces readers to James Buchanan, including his early political career and key events from Buchanan's administration including the Dred Scott case and the secession of seven Southern states…
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James Buchanan's book, delve into the tumultuous era of the 15th President of the United States, a man whose leadership during a critical period in American history has left an…
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Dr. John Meadowcroft
James McGill Buchanan (B 1919) is an American economist best known for his public choice theory. The founder of a new Virginia school of political economy, he has written extensively…
This is volume 17 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.
Alain Marciano
This Element shows that individuals are fundamentally willing to cooperate with others. A historical approach is shown of how the author came to develop a theory of collective action, including…
Ronald L. Baker
James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a "folk poet," emphasizing the importance in the cultural understanding of the ethnographic…
James Buchanan
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
This biography introduces readers to James Buchanan, including his early political career and key events from [his] administration, including the Dred Scott case and the secession of seven Southern states…
In one of the major publishing endeavors of recent decades, The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, the Nobel laureate in Economics in 1986, is being published in twenty volumes…
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Buchanan’s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, a collection of eight original scholarly essays, presents a critical assessment of Buchanan’s research and ideas.
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Deals with the tax revolts sweeping across the United States.
Sketches out a methodological and analytical framework for the establishment of rules. This book points out that the consideration of rules has its roots in classical economics and has been…
James D Richardson
Included in this compilation are the papers of James Buchanan.
Michael Burgan
Examines the life, career, and impact of President James Buchanan and places him within his historical and cultural context.
D. Reisman
James Buchanan (1919-2013), economist and philosopher, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 for his original theory of political democracy as market exchange. Buchanan believed economics should be…
Chapters will examine Buchanan’s scholarly work on public finance, social insurance, public debt, public choice, economic methodology, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and ethics and social theory.
Richard E. Wagner
This book examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan’s body of work, exploring the impact of his contributions on scholars today. Buchanan’s prolific scholarship made strong contact…
Each chapter in this volume seeks to explore, critique, and emphasize the continuing relevance of the vast contributions of Buchanan to our understanding of political economy and social philosophy.
A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory. - Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke…
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James M. Buchanan
This important collection of eight interrelated essays fills a gap in English-language literature in public finance and fiscal theory. The author consistently emphasizes the central role of collective decision making…
Though written by an economist, this book’s subject is not economics in the ordinary sense of that term. Instead, it is James Buchanan’s contribution to what he has called the…
Nobel laureate in economics James Buchanan has been called - and indeed, calls himself - an outsider in American economics. This book provides a look at the humble origins and…
James M Buchanan
Says that our reliance on public debt has amassed a sort of orthodoxy that is commonly - and needlessly - assumed by taxpayers, by politicians, and by economists themselves.
Outlines the dynamics of individual choice as it is displayed in the process of public finance.
Emphasises on imposing constitutional constraints on majoritarian politics such that a more principled pattern might emerge must be a political aim of high priority for all who wish for free…
An index to the entire series of The Collected Works of James M Buchanan . This work includes an annotated copy of the entire curriculum vitae, indicating in which volume…
Presents an index to the entire series of The Collected Works of James M Buchanan . This work includes an annotated copy of the entire curriculum vitae, indicating in which…
Studies of public finance, as traditionally developed, have analysed the effects of fiscal institutions on the market-choice behaviour of individuals and firms, but this book takes a different approach. It…
These thirtyone essays form the foundation of 1986 Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan’s work on the constitutional economics paradigm he founded. Following the earlier collection, Economics: Between Predictive Science and…
Contains thirty-one papers which offer scholars and general readers alike a comprehensive introduction to the work of Buchanan who was a great economist. This volume includes his autobiographical essay, ‘Better…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
As he usually does, Professor Buchanan has produced an interesting and provocative piece of work. [Cost and Choice] starts off as an essay in the history of cost theory; the…
The Limits of Liberty is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate…
Melody S Mis
This fact-filled book will provide your students with biographical information about President Buchanan while they learn to draw the iconic symbols of his life and times.
