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James M. Buchanan

By John Meadowcroft

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2013
ISBN
1441195750, 9781441195753
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
757 kB (774880 bytes)
Series
Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers
Edition
Reprint
Pages
192\193
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-03-28 19:59:02

Description

James McGill Buchanan (1919 - 2013) was an American economist best known as a pioneer of public choice theory. A founder of the new Virginia school of political economy, he made extensive contributions to the theory of public finance, constitutional economics, rent-seeking, and the economic analysis of politics. Buchanan’s work offered a scientific basis for conservative and libertarian political endeavors such as a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986.

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