James M. Buchanan

James M. Buchanan

by John Meadowcroft

Book 17 of Major conservative and libertarian thinkers -- v.

About
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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