The Buchanan House at George Mason University

The Buchanan House serves as a library and a focal point for research in constitutional economics. It also houses the memorabilia, books, and papers of James M. Buchanan. The Buchanan House librarian is Jo Ann Burgess. Also residing at the Buchanan House are Professors James M. Buchanan, Mrs. Betty Tillman, Dr. Yong J. Yoon, and senior visitors to the Center.

Collected Works of James M. Buchanan: We are extremely pleased to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Liberty Fund Press to edit and publish a series of some eighteen volumes of the collected works of James M. Buchanan. These will include ten volumes of previously published books, including Public Principles of Public Debt, The Calculus of Consent, and The Limits of Liberty, to name a few. There are also eight projected volumes of papers published in journals and elsewhere covering such topics as Public Finance, Public Expenditure Theory/Welfare Economics, Public Choice, and Philosophy. Preliminary selection of these papers has been completed. Volume one, The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty, will be submitted to Liberty Fund Press in 1998.

Personnel on this project include the Editorial Board comprised of Geoffrey Brennan, Research Professor, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; Robert Tollison, Robert Hearin Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi; and Hartmut Kliemt, Professor of Philosophy, University of Duisburg. The Editorial Officer is Jo Ann Burgess.

Videotapes from the following subjects can be purchased by contacting Mrs. Jo Ann Burgess at the Buchanan House at jburgess@gmu.edu, (703)993-2337 or MSN#1E6, Buchanan House, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.

Academic Conversations with Professor Buchanan

  • "The Erosion of the Constitution" with Professor Walter Williams
  • "The Federal Reserve: Puncturing the Myth" with Professor David Fand
  • "Political Correctness-American Style" with Professor Allan Mandelstamm
  • "Political Correctness-European Style" with Professor Dr. Hartmut Kliemt
  • "Classic Liberalism" with Professor Charles K. Rowley
  • "The Method and Practice of Economic Science" with Professor Robert Tollison
  • "The Economics of Children" with Professor Jennifer Roback Morse
  • "Approaches to Economics" with Professor Dwight Lee
  • "Democracy and Rent-Seeking" with Professor Gordon Tullock
  • "Justice and the State" with Anthony de Jasay
  • "The End of History Revisited" with Professor Francis Fukuyama
  • "Inflation, Ideology, and European Prospects" with Professor Emeritus Dr. Peter Bernholz
  • "Ethics, Politics, and Economics" with Professor Geoffrey Brennan

Virginia Political Economy Lecture

  • 1995, Professor Thomas D. Willett, "The Public Choice Approach to International Relations"
  • 1996, Professor Edgar K. Browning, "The Economics of Welfare Reform"
  • 1997, Professor Richard B. McKenzie, "The Nature of Time and Economics"

Economics 828: Constitutional Economics

  • "The Domain of Constitutional Political Economy" (Buchanan)
  • "The Reason of Rules I: Personal Rules" (Vanberg)
  • "The Individualist Foundations of Constitutional Order" (Buchanan)
  • "The Reason of Rules II: Social Rules" (Vanberg)
  • "The Relatively Absolute Absolutes: A Generalization of Constitutional Understanding"(Buchanan)
  • "Hayek's Two Kinds of Order and Two Kinds of Rules" (Vanberg)
  • "Competitive Federalism and National Sovereignty" (Buchanan)
  • "Competition as a Constitutional Principle" (Vanberg)
  • "Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Generalization as a Constitutional Norm" (Buchanan)
  • "Constitutional Choice and Cultural Evolution" (Vanberg)
  • "Positive Economics, Welfare Economics, and Political Economy" (Buchanan)
  • "The Constitution of Economic Policy: From Wicksell through The Calculus of Consent" (Buchanan)
  • "The Reason of Rules" (Buchanan)
  • "Institutions, Rules, and Cultural Evolution: The Legacy of Hayek" (Buchanan)
  • "Ethical Rules" (Buchanan)
  • "The Fiscal and Monetary Constitution" (Buchanan)
  • "Federalism and Constitutional Perspective" (Buchanan)
  • "Rent Seeking and Political Efficiency" (Buchanan)
  • "Majoritarian Logic" (Buchanan)
  • "Generality as a Constitutional Constraint" (Buchanan)

Economics 827: Economic Philosophy

  • "On Ethics and Economics" (Kliemt)
  • "Welfare Economics and Political Economy" (Buchanan)
  • "Homo Economicus and Homo Ludens" (Kliemt)
  • "The Contractarian Enterprise: Agreement in Exchange, Politics and Science" (Buchanan)
  • "On the Economics of Virtue, Trust and Love" (Kliemt)
  • "Justice as Fairness, Generality and the Welfare-Transfer State" (Buchanan)
  • "On F.A. Hayek's Political Philosophy" (Kliemt)
  • "Ethics and Economic Interdependence" (Buchanan)
  • "Liberalism and Its Supposed Paradoxes" (Kliemt)
  • "The Mirage of Social Choice" (Buchanan)
  • "On Ethics and Economics" (Brennan)
  • "Methodological Individualism" (Brennan)
  • "Rationality" (Brennan)
  • "Homo Economicus and Politics" (Brennan)
  • "Analytic Conservatism" (Brennan)