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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…
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This is volume 17 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.
James Buchanan
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.
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, a prominent political economist of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate in economics, was a founding thinker of the public choice tradition and was instrumental in…
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This Festschrift was presented in electronic form to Buchanan on the occasion of his eightieth birthday on October 3, 1999, after dinner in Fairfax, Virginia. Perfectly good papers about issues…
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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…
James M. Buchanan
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Peter Koslowski
Adopting a philosophical approach, this work examines the ethics of capitalism, analyzing the moral theory of a capitalist economic order; it also makes a critique of sociobiology, assessing sociobiology’s contribution…
To celebrate a half-century of scholarship in public choice, Dwight Lee has assembled distinguished academics from around the world to reflect on the influence of this monumental publication, and, more…
This book presents twenty-six of the major papers of 1986 Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan, who played a key role in the development of theoretical institutional economics and was awarded…
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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…
Geoffrey Brennan,James M. Buchanan
Should government’s power to tax be limited? The events of the late 1970s in the wake of California’s Proposition 13 brought this question very sharply into popular focus. Providing a…
Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill, and…
