The Buchanan Project is an ongoing research program initiated and, to a large extent, still influenced by the ideas of James M. Buchanan. His publications reflect the breadth of this research. This year (1999) the most important of these works are being re-published by Liberty Fund Inc. as The Collected Works of James Buchanan.
The material on this web site has been contributed by friends and critics of James Buchanan in honor of his 80th birthday. The contributions range from personal tributes to thematic essays. They have come in from all over the world and were put together on various local versions of word processing programs. We have refrained from editorial intervention, so that the style and format used by the authors could be retained. Not surprisingly, however, this has led to a few cases of incompatibility in the encoding of characters, formulas, etc. Thus, there are still some rough edges on the presentation of a few of the contributions. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but it was impossible for us to alleviate all of these problems in the time available to us.
Since the contributions are only a mouse click away, it is superfluous to comment on them any further. However, another part of the "web site story" needs to be made public. The emergence of this order was, like so many others, not completely spontaneous. Some of the hidden hands who assisted in its creation should not remain invisible. The organizational work, approaching contributors, getting letters out to them and doing all those "little" things that pave the way for a project like this, was done by Betty Tillman at the Center for Study of Public Choice. At the construction site at the University of Duisburg, Germany, Petra Krueger and Allison Blizzard "wove" the web, following some preparatory work by Sebastian Rehne. The two of them did basically all the practical, hands-on work. Without their willingness to get things done, none of this would have been possible. The project committee was restricted to reading over the material and looking over their shoulders. A charming position and a division of labor that we do appreciate.
H. G. Brennan, H. Kliemt and B. Tollison
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1. Papers Assessing the Specific
Buchanan Contribution to Economics and Its Scientific Neighbors
Boettke, Peter
J.: James M. Buchanan and the Rebirth of Political Economy
Congleton, Roger
D.: Buchanan and the Virginia School
Feulner, Edwin
J.: The Impact of Professor James Buchanan's Work on American Public Policy
Giardina, Emilio:
Introductory Speech by Prof. Emilio Giardina, Dean of the Faculty of Economics
of the University of Catania, for the Ceremony for the Award of the Laurea Honoris
Causa to Professor James M. Buchanan
Shughart, William
F. II and Tollison, Robert D.: A Creative Theorist in His Workshop: James M.
Buchanan as a Positive Economist
2. Papers Topically Related to Themes That Buchanan Has
Dealt with in His Career
Albert, Hans:
Science and the Social Order
Backhaus, Jürgen
G.: The Law and Economics of Environmental Taxation: When Should the Ecotax
Kick In?
Barbosa, António
S. Pinto: The Constitutional Stage Revisited
Bernholz, Peter: On Conditions Favouring the Introduction
and Maintenance of Stable Monetary Regimes and of Free Constitutions
Blankart, Charles B.: Local Autonomy and Popitz' Law in
Prussia and in Germany
Brennan, Geoffrey:
Notes on Buchanan on Methodological Individualism
Casas Pardo, Jose;
Montoro-Pons, Juan D. and Puchades-Navaro, Miguel: Evolution and Learning in
Collective Decision Making
Faith, Roger L.:
Does Abstention Matter?
Fand, David: Are We
Facing a Stock Market Bubble?
Foldvary, Fred
E.: Recalculating Consent
Giersch, Herbert:Economic Morality as a Competitive Asset
Greene, Kenneth;
Nelson, Philipp: Morality and the Political Process
Lewisch, Peter:
Constitutional Economics and Choice of Law
Machan, Tibor R.:
The Normative Basis of Economic Science
Marmolo, Elisabetta
and Mehta, Nimai M.: Miracles and Meltdowns - Reinventing Leviathan in East
Asia
Meiselman, David I.: Government Intertemporal Capital Management
Decision Making
Monissen, Hans G.: Explorations of the Laffer Curve
Mudambi, Ram; Navarra,
Pietro: Government Bargaining with Non-Unitary-Actor Parties and the Case of
Italian Government Breakdowns
Mueller, Dennis
C.: What Ought to Be Taxed?
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Müller, Christian; Tietzel, Manfred: Merit Goods from a
Constitutional Perspective
Ott, Attiat F. :A Personal
Reminiscence
Pauly: James Buchanan
as a Health Economist
Pejovich, Svetozar:Immorality
of the Transition Industry: The Case of Eastern Europe
Reynolds, Noel
B.: Pareto Optimality and the Rule of Law
Rhee, Pil-Woo: The
National Debt Issue in Fiscal Exchange in Korea. - The Measurement of the Net
Fiscal Burden by Income Classes -
Richter,
Rudolf: Transformation of Economic Systems
Schmidtchen, Dieter: To Help or Not to Help: The Samaritan's
Dilemma Revisited
Schneider, Friedrich:
The Role of a New International Monetary Institution After the EMU and After
the Asian Crises: Some Preliminary Ideas Using Constitutional Economics
Tanaka, Kiyokazu:
Considerations of Constitutional Choice at Condominium Community
Thompson, Earl:
An Invisible Hand Theorem for Collectivists
Vanberg, Viktor
J.: Constitutional Economics and Ethics – On the Relation Between Self-Interest
and Morality
Wagner, Richard
E.: Austrian Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat While Discarding the Chaff
Yoon, Yong J.: The
Voracity Effect Puzzle: Comment Brough, Wayne T.
and Naka, Shigeto: Buchanan for the 21st Century
Clark, Jeff R.
and Lee, Dwight: Revisiting "The Nobel Lie": An Argument for Constitutional
Constraints
Eusepi, Giuseppe:
The Calculus of Dissent: Constitutional Completion and Public Goods
Forman, Frank: A
Specialist in Contract Forte, Francesco:
Buchanan’s "Increasing Returns" Multiplier
Kliemt, Hartmut:
The Art of the State, State of the Art
Levy, David M.: Robust
Institutions
Littlechild, S.C.: Buchanan and Shackle on Cost, Choice
and Subjective Economics
Watrin, Christian:
Will the Europeans Seize Their "Once-in-History Opportunity"?
4. Personal Reminiscences
Aktan, Coskun Can:
Ideas Do Have Consequences!...
Allsbrook, Ogden
O.: Influence of J. M. Buchanan on a Noetic Miscellanist
Bacaria, Jordi:
When I Fell Off the Horse
Benegas Lynch
Jr., Alberto: Prof. James M. Buchanan
Bonaccorsi di
Patti, Emilia: James M. Buchanan and the Italian Economic Thought in the XIX
Century: My Research on Francesco Ferrara and the Theory of Subjective Value
Casas Pardo, Jose:
Reminiscences of Jim Buchanan
Chitester, Robert
J.: Personal Reminiscences
Gilley, J. Wade:‘Is GMU Big Enough for Buchanan?’
Goetz, Charles:
James McGill Buchanan: A Classic Original Thinker
Henderson, David
R.: An Appreciation of Jim Buchanan
Holcombe, Randall
G.: Learning From the Master: A Student Evaluation of Professor Buchanan
de Jasay, Anthony:
Taking Criticsm in the Grand Manner
Kliemt, Hartmut:
Luncheon Speech in Honor of James M. Buchanan´s 80th
Mandelstamm, Allan: A Slender Contribution
Monissen, Bettina: A contribution for a very special person:
James M. Buchanan
Liggio, Leonard: Letter to Jim Buchanan
Plott, Charles
R.: Mr. Buchanan - Some Episodes from the Life of a University of Virginia Graduate
Student in the Early 1960s
Sabino, Carlos:
A Personal Reminisciense About Jim Buchanan
Stoddard, Lytton
W.: Right Thing, Right Way, Right Place
Sugden, Robert:
Blacksburg, Virginia: Summer, 1977
Swedenborg,
Birgitta: The inspiring influence of Jim Buchanan - from a former graduate student
to Jim Buchanan on his 80th birthday
Udagawa, Akihito:
Good Days with Professor James M. Buchanan in Virginia, Europe and Japan
Vaughn, Karen
I.: A Birthday Reminiscence
West, Edwin G.:
First Encounters with James Buchanan’s Scholarship: A Personal Reminiscence
Willett, Thomas D.: A Personal Reminiscence of James Buchanan
Yandle, Bruce: Anyone
Over 50 is a "Damn Fool"
Yeager, Leland
B.: James Buchanan's Influence: A Personal View
5. Miscellaneous
Alchian, Armen
A.: Well Kept Secrets of Jim’s Contributions to Economic Ph.D.s of the
University of California
Bernholz, Peter:
A Poem
Blundell, John
and Robinson, Colin: Jim Buchanan and the IEA
de Bolívar, Carolina
R.: James Buchanan: A Man of Character
Brady, Gordon L.:
James Buchanan's Run-In with the Ford Foundation
Breit, William:
Buchanan-as-Artist: A Retrospective
Cowen, Tyler: Curiosity, Persistence and Virtue
Dorn, James A.: James
M. Buchanan: A Model Plowman
da Empoli, Domenico:
Buchanan's Contributions: An Italian Viewpoint
Hamlin, Alan:
Buchanan and Wiseman
Laband, David
N.: James M. Buchanan Outside the Classroom: A Former Student's Perspective
Meltzer, Allan
H.: To Jim at Eighty
Miller, James C.:
Preface from James M. Buchanan, Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal
Institutions and Individual Choice
Morris, Christopher W.: Perspectives from Philosophy
Mottice, Robert N.: A Letter to James Buchanan
Nott, David C.: Very
Few Men Have Done More
Reisman, David: Buchanan as a Conservative
Salinas, Javier:
James M. Buchanan: A View from the Periphery
van Lith, Ulrich:
We Have the Euro. Now We Need Competing Education and Training Systems to Make
it Strong, a European Capital Market for Investment in Education to Make Europe
Competitive and Grow Together
James M. Buchanan, Jr. Winner of the 1986 Nobel
Prize in Economics
James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy
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