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Bachelors Economics Middle Tennessee State University
PhD Economics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. He was a member of the Board of Advisors of The Independent Institute as well as of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and MPS president from 1984 to 1986, a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and professor at George Mason University.

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James M. Buchanan's Published Works

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The calculus of consent : logical foundations of constitutional democracy (1962) (5454)
Toward a theory of the rent-seeking society (1982) (2186)
An Economic Theory of Clubs (1965) (1803)
Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (1977) (806)
Polluters' Profits and Political Response: Direct Controls Versus Taxes (1975) (638)
The constitution of economic policy. (1987) (636)
The Demand and Supply of Public Goods (1968) (632)
What Should Economists Do (1979) (608)
External Diseconomies, Corrective Taxes, and Market Structure (1969) (512)
Cost and choice : an inquiry in economic theory (1969) (409)
Positive Economics, Welfare Economics, and Political Economy (1959) (364)
Individual Choice in Voting and the Market (1954) (359)
Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State (1999) (306)
Efficiency limits of fiscal mobility: An assessment of the tiebout model (1972) (293)
Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice (1967) (271)
Secession and the Limits of Taxation: Toward a Theory of Internal Exit (1987) (268)
The theory of public choice--II (1984) (267)
The Pure Theory of Government Finance: A Suggested Approach (1949) (233)
The Economics of Earmarked Taxes (1963) (204)
Liberty, market, and state: Political economy in the 1980s (1985) (194)
Cost And Choice (1999) (187)
A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory (1975) (170)
Public Principles Of Public Debt (1958) (170)
Public finance in democratic process (1967) (154)
Fiscal Theory And Political Economy (1961) (124)
The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1964) (110)
The Economics of politics (1978) (107)
The relevance of Pareto optimality (1962) (95)
Economics: Between Predictive Science and Moral Philosophy (1988) (89)
Principles of urban fiscal strategy (1971) (83)
Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics (1958) (83)
Taxation in fiscal exchange (1976) (83)
The expanding public sector: Wagner squared (1977) (77)
The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. (1963) (77)
Federal Grants and Resource Allocation (1952) (76)
Good Economics. Bad Law (1974) (74)
Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement (2012) (74)
Theory of public choice : political applications of economics (1972) (73)
The Coase Theorem and the Theory of the State (1973) (72)
The Theory of Monopolistic Quantity Discounts (1952) (70)
A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle (1976) (69)
Game theory, mathematics, and economics (2001) (66)
The public finances : an introductory textbook (1961) (62)
Better Than Plowing, And Other Personal Essays (1992) (61)
The Political Economy of the Welfare State (1988) (59)
Entrepreneurship and the Internalization of Externalities (1981) (56)
TAX RATES AND TAX REVENUES IN POLITICAL EQUILIBRIUM: SOME SIMPLE ANALYTICS (1982) (54)
Joint Supply, Externality and Optimality (1966) (53)
SOCIAL INSURANCE IN A GROWING ECONOMY: A PROPOSAL FOR RADICAL REFORM (1968) (52)
What Kind of Redistribution Do We Want (1968) (49)
Politics, Property, and the Law: An Alternative Interpretation of Miller et al. v. Schoene (1972) (49)
Private Ownership and Common Usage: The Road Case Re-Examined (1956) (48)
Public finances (2021) (47)
Fiscal Theory and Political Economy: Selected Essays (1960) (43)
Cognition, Choice, and Entrepreneurship (1980) (42)
Knut Wicksell on Marginal Cost Pricing (1951) (39)
Political Constraints on Contractual Redistribution (1974) (36)
Economics in the Post-Socialist Century (1991) (36)
Tax Reform as Political Choice (1987) (36)
Essays on the political economy (1991) (36)
Demand and Supply of Public Goods (1971) (35)
The institutional structure of externality (1973) (35)
The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective: Comment (1975) (34)
The Public-Choice Perspective (1983) (34)
Public Goods in Theory and Practice: A Note on the Minasian-Samuelson Discussion (1967) (31)
Post-socialist political economy : selected essays (1997) (30)
The bases for collective action (1971) (30)
Politics and Science: Reflections on Knight's Critique of Polany (1967) (30)
COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN PUBLIC‐GOODS INTERACTION (1967) (30)
Trying again to value a life (1979) (29)
Rawls on justice as fairness (1972) (29)
Economics from the Outside in: "better Than Plowing" and Beyond (2007) (29)
Notes for an Economic theory of socialism (1970) (28)
Equality as Fact and Norm (1971) (28)
The Achievement and the Limits of Public Choice in Diagnosing Government Failure and in Offering Bases for Constructive Reform (1983) (27)
The Political Biases of Keynesian Economics (1978) (27)
In Defense of Caveat Emptor (1970) (26)
Post-Socialist Political Economy (1997) (26)
THE PRICING OF HIGHWAY SERVICES (1952) (26)
Before Public Choice (2005) (24)
LET US UNDERSTAND ADAM SMITH (2008) (23)
Economic Science and Cultural Diversity (1995) (23)
The Evaluation of Public Services (1961) (22)
The Economizing Element in Knight's Ethical Critique of Capitalist Order (1987) (22)
Equal Treatment and Reverse Discrimination (1981) (21)
The Economic Theory of Politics Reborn (1988) (21)
Economic Science in the Future (1992) (20)
Externality in Tax Response (1966) (19)
A public choice approach to public utility pricing (1) (1968) (19)
External Diseconomies in Competitive Supply (1971) (19)
Fiscal Neutrality toward Economic Growth (1966) (19)
Ceteris Paribus: Some Notes on Methodology (1958) (18)
The Theory of Public Finance@@@The Theory of Public Finance: A Study in Public Economy (1960) (18)
Politics as Public Choice (2000) (17)
Choosing What to Choose (2016) (16)
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs (1981) (16)
Economists Have No Clothes (2009) (15)
Federal Grants and Resource Allocation: A Reply (1952) (15)
Public choice: politics without romance. [Article reprinted from Imprimus, Mar 2003.] (2003) (14)
SUBJECTIVE ELEMENTS IN RAWLSIAN CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT ON DISTRIBUTIONAL RULES (1980) (13)
THE ICONS OF PUBLIC DEBT (1966) (13)
Hegel on the calculus of voting (1974) (13)
The Virginia renaissance in political economy: The 1960s revisited (2006) (12)
AN ANALYTICAL SETTING FOR A “TAXPAYERS' REVOLUTION” (1969) (12)
ON THE INCIDENCE OF TAX DEDUCTIBILITY (1970) (12)
Simple Majority Voting, Game Theory, and Resource Use (1961) (12)
Adam smith on public choice (1976) (11)
The Backbending Supply Curve of Labor: An Example of Doctrinal Retrogression? (1971) (11)
The Demand and Supply of Public Goods. (1969) (11)
A Theory of Truth in Autobiography (1986) (10)
America's Third Century in perspective (1973) (10)
Confessions of a Burden Monger (1964) (10)
Choice, Contract, and Constitutions (2001) (10)
Peak Loads and Efficient Pricing: Comment (1966) (10)
A Future for "Agricultural Economics"? (1969) (10)
The State of Economic Science (1989) (9)
Breton and Weldon on Public Goods (1967) (9)
The related but distinct ‘sciences' of economics and of political economy (1982) (9)
Individual Interests and Collective Action: Studies in Rationality and Social Change.James S. Coleman (1987) (9)
Economic Analogues to the Generalization Argument (1964) (8)
Pareto-Optimality and Gains-from-Trade: A Comment (1972) (8)
Ideas, Persons, and Events (2001) (8)
A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF POLLUTION (1968) (8)
Fiscal Equity in the Unequal Treatment of Unequals: A Rejoinder (1951) (7)
FISCAL CHOICE THROUGH TIME: A CASE FOR INDIRECT TAXATION? (1964) (7)
Prices, income, and public policy : the ABC's of economics (1955) (7)
Fiscal policy and fiscal preference (1967) (6)
Relaxing benevolence : public choice , socialist calculation , and planner self-interest (2006) (6)
Towards a theory of yes-no voting (1981) (6)
Saving and the Rate of Interest: A Comment (1959) (6)
IN CELEBRATION OF ARMEN ALCHIAN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY: LIVING AND BREATHING ECONOMICS (1996) (5)
Gains-From-Trade in Votes (1966) (5)
The most significant contributions to economics during the twentieth century: lists of the Nobel laureates (2001) (5)
A Tribute to Peter Bauer (2002) (5)
Externalities and Public Expenditure Theory (2001) (5)
Gasoline Tax Sharing Among Local Units of Government in Tennessee (1941) (5)
Gasoline rationing and market pricing: Public choice in political economy (1974) (4)
Convexity Constraints In Public Goods Theory (1980) (4)
PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE (1975) (4)
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs: Reply (1984) (4)
Economic Inquiry and Its Logic (2000) (4)
PUBLIC CHOICE AND PUBLIC POLICY (1973) (4)
The Public Choice Approach (1989) (4)
The Optimality of Pure Competition in the Capacity Problem: Comment (1967) (3)
The Pyramid Power (2012) (3)
Landmark Papers in Economics, Politics and Law (2002) (3)
Economic Theory in the Postrevolutionary Moment of the 1990s (1994) (3)
Political Economy and National Priorities: A Review Essay of the Economic Report of the President and the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers (1970) (3)
Regional Implications of Marginal Cost Rate Making (1949) (3)
Notes on Nobelity (2001) (3)
Debt and Taxes (2001) (3)
The Public Debt Reconsidered: A Review Article@@@Is the National Debt a Burden?@@@Public Principles of Public Debt (1959) (2)
Resource Allocation and Entrepreneurship (1980) (2)
What the Virginia school stands for From its roots in the late 1950s at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Political Economy at the University of Virginia, the Virginia school of political economy (2007) (2)
The Nature of Public Debt: A Review Article@@@Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement (1958) (2)
Note on the Differential Controversy (1950) (2)
Citizens as Sovereigns (1962) (2)
Prices, income, and public policy (1961) (2)
Politics and Markets: The World’s Political Economic Systems (1979) (2)
Fiscal Theory and Political Economy. (1965) (2)
United States Fiscal Policy, 1945-1959: Its Contribution to Economic Stability. (1962) (2)
External Diseconomies in Competitive Supply: Reply (1973) (1)
Can Public Participation lead to an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making? A preliminary assessment of the relevant concepts. (2006) (1)
Economic Foundations of Political Power. By Randall Bartlett. (New York: The Free Press, 1973. Pp. xi, 206. $8.95.) (1975) (1)
Book Review:Federal Grants and the Business Cycle James A. Maxwell (1952) (1)
Chapter 2 – The Economic Constitution and the New Deal: Lessons for Late Learners (1979) (1)
Book Review:The Theologian and His Universe: Theology and Cosmology from the Middle Ages to the Present N. Max Wildiers (1985) (1)
The economists' vision : essays in modern economic perspectives : for Hans G. Monissen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (1998) (1)
Obituary: The sayer of truth: A personal tribute to Peter Bauer (2002) (1)
Marshall's Mathematical Note XIX (1965) (1)
The Adam Smith Lecture: On the Structure of an Economy: A Re-Emphasis of Some Classical Foundations (1989) (1)
Book Review:Public Expenditure. Jesse Burkhead, Jerry Miner (1973) (0)
Book Review: A Reconstruction of Economics (1951) (0)
E. G. W B S T 1 Carleton University (2016) (0)
What Is Public Choice Theory? (2003) (0)
Book Review:Monopoly and Competition and Their Regulation E. H. Chamberlin (1955) (0)
The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines An Economic Theory of Clubs (2008) (0)
SOY volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
Eugene Carson Blake, the pastor (1998) (0)
Language and Politics. Fred R. DallmayrPolis and Praxis: Essays in Contemporary Political Theory. Fred R. Dallmayr (1986) (0)
Book Review:Creation of Income by Taxation Joshua C. Hubbard (1951) (0)
The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy. Volume Five. Daniel Webster (First Part) (1929) (0)
Public-choice Theory Brings James M. Buchanan the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics; Nigerian Poet and Playwright Wole Soyinka Awarded the Literature Prize (1998) (0)
COSMOS + TAXIS | Volume 9 Issue 5 + 6 2021 (2021) (0)
Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins 1 (1962) (0)
Book Review:The Industrial Economy: Its Technological Basis and Institutional Destiny C. E. Ayres (1952) (0)
Book Review:The Theory of Fiscal Economics Earl R. Rolph (1955) (0)
The Economics and Ethics of Idleness (2001) (0)
Beyond science: The economists' enterprise (1997) (0)
Book Review:The Tax System of Hawaii Robert M. Kamins (1953) (0)
Book Review:Economic Resources and Policies of the South Calvin B. Hoover, B. U. Ratchford (1952) (0)
Book Review:Three Faces of Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Current Theories of Understanding Roy J. Howard (1985) (0)
Book Review:Public Finance. Carl S. Shoup (1970) (0)
Book Review:Politics, Economics, and the Public: Policy Outcomes in the American States Thomas R. Dye (1967) (0)
The political ambiguity of Reagan economics: Marginal adjustment or structural shift? (1982) (0)
Arend Lijphart and Consociationalism (2013) (0)

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