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Advisory General Director
Professor Buchanan got his start with a B.A. from Middle Tennessee State College in 1940, followed by a M.S. from the University of Tennessee in 1941. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1948, he held teaching positions at the University of Virginia, UCLA, and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Among the many influential books he has written are The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1962) with Gordon Tullock; Cost and Choice (1969); The Limits of Liberty (1975); and Liberty, Market, and State (1985); and his autobiography, Better than Plowing and Other Personal Essays (1992). Most recently Liberty Fund, Inc. has published a series called The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan Dr. Buchanan's working papers Dr. Buchanan's Vita The Buchanan House at GMU Dr. Buchanan's page at the Nobel
Prize Internet Archive Buchanan House |
Economist James M. Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic
Science, is the Center's advisory general director. He is best known for
developing the "public choice theory" of economics, which changed
the way economists analyze economic and political decision making. Professor
Buchanan's work opened the door for the examination of how politicians'
self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy.