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James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory , for which he received 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, a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and professor at George Mason University.

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Politics by Principle, Not Interest

Efficiency limits of fiscal mobility: An assessment of the tiebout model

The Pure Theory of Government Finance: A Suggested Approach

Equilibrium: the intracellular distribution of steroid receptors

Barro on the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem

Public Finance and Public Choice

The Economics of Earmarked Taxes

Ethical Rules, Expected Values, and Large Numbers

The Reason of Rules

Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins

Rent Seeking, Noncompensated Transfers, and Laws of Succession

Federal Grants and Resource Allocation

Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum

Principles of urban fiscal strategy

Politics, Time, and the Laffer Curve

Good Economics. Bad Law

The expanding public sector: Wagner squared

Constitutional Economics

Taxation in fiscal exchange

A HOBBESIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE RAWLSIAN DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE

Same players, different game: how better rules make better politics

Dialogues concerning fiscal religion

The Theory of Monopolistic Quantity Discounts

Tax instruments as constraints on the disposition of public revenues

How can constitutions be designed so that politicians who seek to serve “public interest” can survive and prosper?

Entrepreneurship and the Internalization of Externalities

A Smithean Perspective on Increasing Returns

Politics, Property, and the Law: An Alternative Interpretation of Miller et al. v. Schoene

Knut Wicksell on Marginal Cost Pricing

What Kind of Redistribution Do We Want?

Game theory, mathematics, and economics

Tissue specific expression of mouse transferrin during development and aging

Cost and Choice

Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking

Private Ownership and Common Usage: The Road Case Re-Examined

Is Public Choice Immoral? The Case for the "Nobel" Lie

I did not call him “Fritz”: Personal recollections of Professor F. A. v. Hayek

The institutional structure of externality

TAX RATES AND TAX REVENUES IN POLITICAL EQUILIBRIUM: SOME SIMPLE ANALYTICS

The Status of the Status Quo

PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE

Unbound Progesterone Receptors Are in Equilibrium between the Nucleus and Cytoplasm in Cells of the Rat Uterus*

Economics in the Post-Socialist Century

The Theory of Public Finance

The Ethical Limits of Taxation

Joint Supply, Externality and Optimality

Notes for an Economic theory of socialism

THE MORAL DIMENSION OF DEBT FINANCING

Federalism as an Ideal Political Order and an Objective for Constitutional Reform

The Political Biases of Keynesian Economics

Human APOE protein localized in brains of transgenic mice

The Economizing Element in Knight's Ethical Critique of Capitalist Order

Public Goods in Theory and Practice: A Note on the Minasian-Samuelson Discussion

The politicization of market failure

The incumbency dilemma and rent extraction by legislators

Politics and Science: Reflections on Knight's Critique of Polany

Tax Reform as Political Choice

Ceteris Paribus: Some Notes on Methodology

A theory of leadership and deference in constitutional construction

The Justice of Natural Liberty

Externality in Tax Response

Cognition, Choice, and Entrepreneurship

Trying again to value a life

Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy

Can Democracy Promote the General Welfare?

Ethics and Economic Progress

In Defense of Caveat Emptor

The Achievement and the Limits of Public Choice in Diagnosing Government Failure and in Offering Bases for Constructive Reform

Evaluation of Sedation Failure in the Outpatient Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic

The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective: Comment

Simple Majority Voting, Game Theory, and Resource Use

Fiscal responsibility in constitutional democracy

Vote buying in a stylized setting

Public choice after socialism

America's Third Century in perspective

Equality as Fact and Norm

Peak Loads and Efficient Pricing: Comment

Expression of transferrin and vitamin D-binding protein genes in an osteogenic sarcoma cell line

LET US UNDERSTAND ADAM SMITH

A public choice approach to public utility pricing (1)

Rawls on justice as fairness

Hegel on the calculus of voting

Majoritarian exploitation of the fiscal commons: general taxes–differential transfers

The Evaluation of Public Services

The Graying Phenomenon An Unusual Manifestation of Alopecia Areata

Constitutional Political Economy

Constitutional Economics

Utopia, the minimal state, and entitlement

Fiscal Equity in the Unequal Treatment of Unequals: A Rejoinder

Federal Grants and Resource Allocation: A Reply

COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN PUBLIC-GOODS INTERACTION

Towards the Simple Economics of Natural Liberty: An Exploratory Analysis

Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum

Europe as social reality

All voting is strategic

Agreement and efficiency: response to Guttman

SOCIAL INSURANCE IN A GROWING ECONOMY: A PROPOSAL FOR RADICAL REFORM

The Constitutional Way of Thinking

Majoritarian Management of the Commons

Nineteen Years Review of Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Coated Hip Implants: A Clinical and Histological Evaluation

Constitutional Political Economy

Opportunity Cost

Die konstitutionelle Ökonomik der Ethik

Equal Treatment and Reverse Discrimination

Constitutional implications of alternative models of increasing returns

Adam smith on public choice

Expression of a human chimeric transferrin gene in senescent transgenic mice reflects the decrease of transferrin levels in aging humans

The Gauthier Enterprise

EQUALITY, HIERARCHY, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE

THE PRICING OF HIGHWAY SERVICES

Direct Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and Constitutional Strategy

Politics as Tragedy in Several Acts

SUBJECTIVE ELEMENTS IN RAWLSIAN CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT ON DISTRIBUTIONAL RULES

PRIVATE INTEREST SUPPORT FOR EFFICIENCY ENHANCING ANTITRUST POLICIES

IN CELEBRATION OF ARMEN ALCHIAN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY: LIVING AND BREATHING ECONOMICS

THE ICONS OF PUBLIC DEBT

The related but distinct ‘sciences' of economics and of political economy

Economic Commentaries

17 Year Review of Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Coated Hip Implants – A Clinical and Histological Evaluation

The balanced budget amendment: Clarifying the arguments

Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments

The Market as a Creative Process

The Matrix of Contractarian Justice

Economic Analogues to the Generalization Argument

THE POLITICAL EFFICIENCY OF GENERAL TAXATION

Breton and Weldon on Public Goods

The Calculus of Consent.

Moral Community and Moral Order

Konsumbesteuerung und demokratischer Prozess

The metamorphosis of John Gray

Jack Wiseman: A personal appreciation

Contractarian presuppositions and democratic governance

Asymmetrical Reciprocity in Market Exchange: Implications for Economies in Transition

Confessions of a Burden Monger

Gains-From-Trade in Votes

Pragmatic Reform and Constitutional Revolution

A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF POLLUTION

A Theory of Truth in Autobiography

Public Choice and the Extent of the Market

The Potential and the Limits of Socially Organised Humankind

Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes

A Future for “Agricultural Economics”?

Hydroxy Apatite Ceramic Hip Survey Ceramic on Ceramic Bearings

Ceramic on Ceramic Bearings in Total Hip Arthroplasty

16 Year Review of Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Coated Hip Implants - A Clinical and Histological Evaluation

The Ethical Limits of Taxation

Rent Seeking, Noncompensated Transfers, and Laws of Succession

Consumption Taxation and Democratic Process

Economic Theory in the Postrevolutionary Moment of the 1990s

Towards a theory of yes-no voting

Gasoline rationing and market pricing: Public choice in political economy

Cartels, coalitions, and constitutional politics

A two-country parable

A Correction in Elementary Public Choice Geometry

Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins

Monetary malpractice: Intent, impotence, or incompetence?

Saving and the Rate of Interest: A Comment

Direct Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and Constitutional Strategy

Schumpeter as Precursor to Non-Constitutional Public Choice

Taxpayer Apathy, Institutional Inertia, and Economic Growth*

ON A FISCAL CONSTITUTION FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION

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.

Theory of Public Choice: Political Applications of Economics.

The Economic Theory of Fiscal Policy.

Finanza pubblica.

Before Public Choice

Contractarianism

Man and the State

Democracy within Constitutional Limits

Public choice after socialism

Fiscal policy and fiscal preference

In search of homunculus politicus

Ideas, institutions, and political economy: A plea for disestablishment

The Economic Constitution and the New Deal: Lessons for Late Learners

FISCAL CHOICE THROUGH TIME: A CASE FOR INDIRECT TAXATION?

AN ANALYTICAL SETTING FOR A “TAXPAYERS' REVOLUTION”

The Public Choice Perspective

Can Policy Activism Succeed? A Public Choice Perspective

Prices, Income, and Public Policy--The ABC's of Economics

A Financial History of Tennessee since 1870

Regional Implications of Marginal Cost Rate Making

The Demand and Supply of Public Goods

Freedom in Constitutional Contract: Perspectives of a Political Economist

Better than Plowing and Other Personal Essays

Open Markets in the Transfer State

Rational Majoritarian Taxation of the Rich: With Increasing Returns and Capital Accumulation

Lectures on Jurisprudence

Demand and Supply of Public Goods

Fiscal Theory and Political Economy: Selected Essays.

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes.

The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution.

The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy.

Fiscal Theory and Political Economy.

16 Year Review of Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Coated Hip Implants - A Clinical and Histological Evaluation

17 Year Review of Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Coated Hip Implants – A Clinical and Histological Evaluation

Presuppositions in the evaluation of rules

Reflections After Three Decades

Better than Ploughing

On Some Fundamental Issues in Political Economy: An Exchange of Correspondence

Variations on Tullock’s Road Model

Contemporary Democracy and the Prospect for Fiscal Control: Initial Thoughts about and Final Reactions to the Conference

Ceramic-on-Ceramic Bearings in Hip Arthroplasty: A Clinical Review

Ceramic-on-Ceramic Bearings in Hip Arthroplasty: A Clinical Review

The Morality of Capitalism Comment on Peter Koslowski, The Ethics of Capitalism

The Fiscal Crises in Welfare Democracies: With Some Implications for Public Investment

A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle

The costs of collectivization, per se

Erratum to: Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy

The political ambiguity of Reagan economics

Beyond science: The economists' enterprise

Equality, Hierarchy, and Global Justice

Asymmetrical Reciprocity in Market Exchange: Implications for Economies in Transition

The Efficacy of Arbitrary Rules

The Economics of Rights, Co-operation, and Welfare, Robert Sugden. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, vii + 191 pages.

Political Philosophy, Jean Hampton. Westview Press, 1997, xiii + 272 pages.

Liberty Bell takes stress

Opportunity Cost

The most significant contributions to economics during the twentieth century: lists of the Nobel laureates

Individual Interests and Collective Action: Studies in Rationality and Social Change.James S. Coleman

L'Autofinancement des sociétés en France et aux États-Unis. Marcel Malissen

The Ideologies of Taxation. Louis Eisenstein

Politics, Economics, and the Public: Policy Outcomes in the American States. Thomas R. Dye

Essays on Politics and Society. John Stuart Mill

Book Review:Public Finance. Carl S. Shoup

Book Review:Public Expenditure. Jesse Burkhead, Jerry Miner

CLARIFYING CONFUSION ABOUT THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

ON THE INCIDENCE OF TAX DEDUCTIBILITY

Politics and Scientific Enquiry

Heraclitian Vespers

PROFESSOR MAXWELL AND FISCAL EQUITY

Forty Years on, and Counting

Costituzione e politica economica*

The Constitutional Moment of the 1990s *

Public Choice After the Revolutions: 1989–91*

Individualism and Political Disorder Introduction: Political Disorder and Decay

Meglio Che Arare. (Better than Ploughing)

A Tribute to Peter Bauer

The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy

The Nature of Public Debt: A Review Article

Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics

Humanist versus Economist: The Economic Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiscal Theory and Political Economy

Fiscal Neutrality toward Economic Growth

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes

The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution

Liberty, Market and State: Political Economy in the 1980s

The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood

Explorations into Constitutional Economics

Essays on Political Economy

Ethics and Economic Progress

The Return to Increasing Returns

A Reconstruction of Economics

Academia and Anarchy: An Economic Diagnosis

The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan

Economic Institutions Compared

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes

The Optimality of Pure Competition in the Capacity Problem: Comment

The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800

The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy

The Public Debt Reconsidered: A Review Article

Academia in Anarchy: An Economic Diagnosis

The Calculus of Consent

Marshall's Mathematical Note XIX

Freedom in Constitutional Contract. Perspectives of a Political Economist.

The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy.

Explorations into Constitutional Economics.

Issues in Defense Economics.

Pareto-Walras: Da un carteggio inedito (1891-1901).

The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order.

Academia in Anarchy: An Economic Diagnosis.

Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement.

The Public Finances: An Introductory Textbooks.

Universalism through Common Access: An Alternative Model of Distributive Majoritarian Politics

Prices, Income and Public Policy

Spending More and Enjoying It Less: On the Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism

Academia in Anarchy: An Economic Diagnosis

Peut-on apprivoiser la démocratie ?

Osteolysis Associated with Polythene Liners in Hydroxyapatite Hip Arthroplasty

Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Hip Survey: Ceramic/Ceramic Bearings

Nineteen Years Review of Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Coated Hip Implants: A Clinical and Histological Evaluation

Hydroxyapatite Hip Arthroplasty in Patients under the Age of 50

Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Hip Survey Alumina on Alumina Bearings

Hydroxyapatite Hip Arthroplasty in Osteoporotic Bone: A Study in Female Patients Over the Age of Sixty

Hydroxyapatite Hip Arthroplasty in Patients under the Age of 50

Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Hip Survey Alumina on Alumina Bearings

Hydroxyapatite Hip Arthroplasty in Osteoporotic Bone: A Study in Female Patients Over the Age of Sixty

Osteolysis Associated with Polythene Liners in Hydroxyapatite Hip Arthroplasty

Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Hip Survey: Ceramic/Ceramic Bearings

Subjective Evaluation of Alternatives in Individual Voting Choice

Afraid to be free: dependency as desideratum

Ethics and the Extent of the Market

DISORDERS OF THE MENOPAUSE

Elizabeth Anderson., Value in Ethics and Economics

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