James M. Buchanan

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PhD Economics University of Chicago
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The power to tax : analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution (1981) (2205)
The limits of liberty: between anarchy and Leviathan (1976) (1270)
The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (1987) (806)
The Samaritan's Dilemma (1975) (536)
Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anticommons* (2000) (478)
Towards a tax constitution for Leviathan (1977) (427)
Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets (1954) (423)
The domain of constitutional economics (1990) (392)
The Market as a Creative Process (1991) (354)
The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution. (1981) (330)
The power to tax (1980) (304)
Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking (2008) (297)
The Reason of Rules (2008) (295)
Voter Choice (1984) (262)
Barro on the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem (1976) (243)
Interests and Theories in Constitutional Choice (1989) (215)
The economics and the ethics of constitutional order (1991) (211)
Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy (1998) (200)
Federalism As an Ideal Political Order and an Objective for Constitutional Reform (1995) (193)
The return to increasing returns (1994) (169)
The Limits to Liberty (2000) (135)
Ethical Rules, Expected Values, and Large Numbers (1965) (135)
Freedom in Constitutional Contract: Perspectives of a Political Economist (1979) (128)
Rent Seeking, Noncompensated Transfers, and Laws of Succession (1983) (109)
The Logical Foundations Of Constitutional Liberty (1999) (106)
Afraid to be free: Dependency as desideratum (2005) (106)
Politics, Policy, and the Pigovian Margins (1962) (103)
Politics, Time, and the Laffer Curve (1982) (101)
Same players, different game: how better rules make better politics (2008) (99)
Tax instruments as constraints on the disposition of public revenues (1978) (98)
Federalism and Individual Sovereignty (1996) (91)
The Status of the Status Quo (2004) (85)
Markets, States, and the Extent of Morals (1978) (80)
Ethics and Economic Progress (1995) (77)
An Efficiency Basis for Federal Fiscal Equalization (1970) (77)
Rational Choice and Moral Order (1988) (69)
How can constitutions be designed so that politicians who seek to serve “public interest” can survive and prosper? (1993) (65)
Predictive Power and the Choice among Regimes (1983) (64)
The normative purpose of economic ‘science’: Rediscovery of an eighteenth century method (1981) (62)
The Justice of Natural Liberty (1976) (62)
Contractarian Political Economy and Constitutional Interpretation (1988) (61)
Revenue Implications of Money Creation under Leviathan (1981) (60)
Generalized Increasing Returns, Euler's Theorem, and Competitive Equilibrium (1999) (56)
Explorations Into Constitutional Economics (1990) (55)
The inconsistencies of the National Health Service (1966) (52)
THE LOGIC OF TAX LIMITS: ALTERNATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE POWER TO TAX (1979) (50)
A Smithean Perspective on Increasing Returns (2000) (48)
On Some Fundamental Issues in Political Economy: An Exchange of Correspondence (1975) (48)
L.S.E. Essays On Cost (1973) (47)
The Constitutionalization of Money (2010) (47)
Property as a guarantor of liberty (1993) (46)
Constitutional Implications of Radical Subjectivism (2002) (46)
VI PREDICTABILITY: THE CRITERION OF MONETARY CONSTITUTIONS (1962) (46)
The balanced budget amendment: Clarifying the arguments (1997) (45)
Is Public Choice Immoral? The Case for the "Nobel" Lie (1988) (44)
Why I, too, am not a conservative: the normative vision of classical liberalism (2006) (42)
Globalization as Framed by the Two Logics of Trade (2002) (40)
Politics by principle, not interest: References (1998) (38)
MarketFailure and Political Failure (1988) (37)
The Ethical Limits of Taxation (1984) (34)
I did not call him “Fritz”: Personal recollections of Professor F. A. v. Hayek (1992) (33)
An American Perspective on Europe's Constitutional Opportunity (1991) (33)
THE MORAL DIMENSION OF DEBT FINANCING (1985) (32)
Economists and the gains from trade (1988) (31)
The Incidence and Effects of Public Debt in the Absence of Fiscal Illusion (1987) (30)
The Soul of Classical Liberalism (2000) (29)
Justification of the Compound Republic: The Calculus in Retrospect (1987) (29)
THE POLITICAL EFFICIENCY OF GENERAL TAXATION (1993) (27)
Monopoly in Money and Inflation: The Case for a Constitution to Discipline Government. (1981) (27)
Public choice after socialism (1993) (26)
The consequences of Mr. Keynes : an analysis of the misuse of economic theory for political profiteering, with proposals for constitutional disciplines (1978) (26)
Chicago School Thinking: Old and New (2010) (26)
The politicization of market failure (1988) (26)
Individualism and Political Disorder (2014) (24)
John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2002) (23)
A theory of leadership and deference in constitutional construction (1989) (23)
The incumbency dilemma and rent extraction by legislators (1994) (23)
Fiscal responsibility in constitutional democracy (1978) (23)
CLARIFYING CONFUSION ABOUT THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT (1995) (23)
ON A FISCAL CONSTITUTION FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION (1994) (23)
The consequences of Mr. Keynes (1978) (22)
Can Democracy Promote the General Welfare? (1997) (22)
Vote buying in a stylized setting (1986) (21)
Social Security Survival: A Public-Choice Perspective (1983) (21)
Group Selection and Team Sports (2000) (21)
Organization Theory and Fiscal Economics: Society, State, and Public Debt (1986) (21)
Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy (1994) (19)
Moral Science and Moral Order (2001) (19)
All voting is strategic (2006) (18)
Notes on the Liberal Constitution (1994) (18)
Majoritarian exploitation of the fiscal commons: general taxes–differential transfers (2004) (18)
Europe as social reality (1996) (17)
Majoritarian Management of the Commons (2001) (16)
Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology: Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan (1996) (15)
Utopia, the minimal state, and entitlement (1975) (15)
Why I, Too Am Not A Conservative (2005) (15)
Direct Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and Constitutional Strategy (2001) (15)
NOTES ON HAYEK--Miami, 15 February, 1979 (2015) (15)
The Matrix of Contractarian Justice (1984) (15)
The Gauthier Enterprise (1988) (15)
An Ambiguity in Sen’s Alleged Proof of the Impossibility of a Pareto Libertarian (1996) (14)
Public Debt In A Democratic Society (1967) (14)
The Constitutional Way of Thinking (2003) (14)
Can Policy Activism Succeed? A Public Choice Perspective (1984) (13)
Democracy within Constitutional Limits (1994) (13)
Cartels, coalitions, and constitutional politics (1991) (13)
The nature of the materials of heredity. (1960) (13)
The Limits of Market Efficiency (2011) (13)
Informational Limits to Democratic Public Policy (2003) (13)
Individual Rights, Emergent Social States, and Behavioral Feasibility (1995) (13)
Reductionist Reflections on the Monetary Constitution (1989) (12)
Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion (11)
Agreement and efficiency: response to Guttman (1998) (11)
Federalism, Liberty, and the Law (2001) (11)
Private Interest Support for Efficiency Enhancing Antitrust Policies (1992) (10)
Pragmatic Reform and Constitutional Revolution (1969) (10)
The Economic Consequences of the Deficit (1986) (10)
Constitutional implications of alternative models of increasing returns (1995) (10)
The Minimal Politics of Market Order (1991) (10)
The Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation (1979) (10)
Methods and Morals in Economics: The Ayres-Knight Discussion (1976) (10)
Jack Wiseman: A personal appreciation (1991) (9)
A two-country parable (1995) (8)
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments (1979) (8)
Politics as Tragedy in Several Acts (2003) (8)
Universalism through Common Access: An Alternative Model of Distributive Majoritarian Politics (2002) (7)
The Fiscal Crises in Welfare Democracies: With Some Implications for Public Investment (1998) (7)
Europe's Constitutional Future (1990) (7)
The doctrine of justification : an outline of its history in the church and of its exposition from Scripture (1955) (7)
Constitutional Efficiency and the European Central Bank (2004) (6)
21. Toward Analysis of Closed Behavioral Systems (2019) (6)
Public Choice and the Extent of the Market (2008) (6)
Majoritarian logic (1998) (6)
EQUALITY, HIERARCHY, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE (2006) (6)
Politics and process: Contractarian presuppositions and democratic governance (1989) (5)
Towards the Simple Economics of Natural Liberty: An Exploratory Analysis (1987) (5)
The Doctrine Of Justification (1985) (5)
The Sense of Community in Hayekian Moral Order (2006) (5)
Reaganomics and After (1989) (5)
Natural Equality, Increasing Returns, and Economic Progress: A Reinterpretation of Adam Smith's System (2005) (5)
Two views of government : a conversation (2007) (4)
Man and the State (1987) (4)
Rational Majoritarian Taxation of the Rich: With Increasing Returns and Capital Accumulation (1995) (4)
Monetary malpractice: Intent, impotence, or incompetence? (1992) (4)
Asymmetrical Reciprocity in Market Exchange: Implications for Economies in Transition (1993) (4)
The metamorphosis of John Gray (1995) (4)
On Monopoly Price (1983) (4)
Who Should Pay for Common-Access Facilities? (1972) (4)
The Office And Work Of The Holy Spirit (1984) (4)
Reflections After Three Decades (2005) (3)
Disagreement as Self-Deception About Meta-Rationality (2002) (3)
Scienza Delle Finanze and Public Choice (2016) (3)
Albert Breton, Competitive governments: An economic theory of politics and public finance. (1997) (3)
In search of homunculus politicus (2008) (3)
La ética del capitalismo (1997) (3)
Heidegger and the Problem of Ground (1973) (3)
Consumption Taxation and Democratic Process (1990) (3)
The Real Debt (1959) (3)
Schumpeter as Precursor to Non-Constitutional Public Choice (1984) (3)
Choosing for others: A neglected element in the theory of collective action (2012) (3)
The costs of collectivization, per se (2014) (3)
Ethics and the Extent of the Market (2009) (2)
Buchanan on Heraclitian Vespers (2004) (2)
A Correction in Elementary Public Choice Geometry (2003) (2)
Open Markets in the Transfer State (1992) (2)
Perspectives in the study of politics (1968) (2)
The Market, Yes; Demos, No (2005) (2)
Moral Community and Moral Order (1983) (2)
On Monopoly Price: Reply (1985) (2)
The Deficit and American Democracy (1984) (2)
Why Do Constitutions Matter (2017) (2)
Presuppositions in the evaluation of rules (2013) (2)
Erratum to: Lagged implementation as an element in constitutional strategy (1994) (2)
Institutional sources of America's fiscal tragedy (2015) (2)
Subjective Evaluation of Alternatives in Individual Voting Choice (2006) (2)
The Potential and the Limits of Socially Organised Humankind (1991) (2)
Ideas, institutions, and political economy: A plea for disestablishment (1986) (1)
Adam Smith, James Buchanan, and Classical Liberalism : An Interview with James M. Buchanan (2006) (1)
Politics by principle, not interest: Generality and externality (1998) (1)
CRITERIA FOR GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE: COMMENT (1951) (1)
Normative Presuppositions for Democracy (2006) (1)
1988: The Adam Smith Address on the Structure of an Economy: a Re-Emphasis of Some Classical Foundations (2016) (1)
David Wright Wilson. (1973) (1)
Pareto Superior Tax Reform: Some Simple Analytics (1994) (1)
Geometric interpretation of solutions to differential equations (1991) (1)
Modeling the individual for constitutional analysis (1986) (1)
A Financial History of Tennessee Since 1870 (2013) (1)
Robert A. Dahl, How Democratic is the American Constitution? (2003) (1)
Variations on Tullock’s Road Model (2000) (1)
Essays on Politics and Society. John Stuart Mill (1978) (1)
Vote buying in a stylized setting: Reply (1990) (1)
The Economics of Rights, Co-operation, and Welfare, Robert Sugden. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, vii + 191 pages (1988) (0)
CRIIS Common Framework (2008) (0)
Book reviews (1992) (0)
Beyond Law: The Institutionalized Ethics of Liberal Order (2006) (0)
Market restriction and the generality norm (1998) (0)
Vincent Ostrom, The meaning of democracy and the vulnerability of democracies: A response to Tocqueville's challenge. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. xxi+329 pages. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). (1999) (0)
Is constitutional revolution possible in democracy (1986) (0)
Generality and redistribution (1998) (0)
CHAPTER1 THE FISCAL CRISES IN WEL FARE DEMOCRACIES: WITH SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC INVESTMENT** (1998) (0)
Politics by principle, not interest: Generality without uniformity: Social insurance (1998) (0)
No Salvation through Constitutions (2015) (0)
Better than Ploughing (2013) (0)
Oliver Ellsworth, Third Chief Justice (2023) (0)
An American evaluation of Europe's Constitutional Prospect (1992) (0)
The Hayek Difference (2006) (0)
Liberty Bell takes stress (2003) (0)
Sales Taxation. John F. Due (1958) (0)
God, the State and the Market (2006) (0)
Generality, law, and politics (1998) (0)
The Equivocal Ethics of Liberalism (2006) (0)
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government . By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 350. $24.95. (1988) (0)
JEH volume 41 issue 1 Back matter (1981) (0)
THE EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS OF SOLUTIONS TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (2010) (0)
The Constitutional Moment of the 1990s (1991) (0)
Gold, Money and the Law (2017) (0)
The Ideologies of Taxation. Louis Eisenstein (1962) (0)
Pathological Forms of the Will-to-Power (1983) (0)
Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue (1994) (0)
Classical Liberalism as an Organizing Ideal (2006) (0)
Politics without rules, I: Time and nonconstrained collective action (1986) (0)
All or Nothing (2010) (0)
Rules and Reason: Foreword (2001) (0)
Buchanan, James M. - An inaugural dissertation on wounds (2016) (0)
The justices on circuit, 1790-1794 (1988) (0)
Political Philosophy, Jean Hampton. Westview Press, 1997, xiii + 272 pages (1998) (0)
Madison’s Angels (2006) (0)
The reason of rules: The contractarian vision (1986) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Elizabeth Anderson., Value in Ethics and Economics (1996) (0)
Commentaries on appointments and proceedings (1985) (0)
Politics by principle, not interest: Generality without uniformity: Federalism (1998) (0)
Public Choice After the Revolutions: 1989–91* (1992) (0)
The Morality of Capitalism Comment on Peter Koslowski, The Ethics of Capitalism (1996) (0)
PROFESSOR MAXWELL AND FISCAL EQUITY (1955) (0)
The Philosophy of Economics: The Market as a Creative Process (2007) (0)
CLARIFYING CONFUSION ABOUT THE BALANCED (1999) (0)
Buchanan The Limits of Market Efficiency (2011) (0)
The efficacy of arbitrary rules (2015) (0)
Deficit financing and intertemporal discrimination (1998) (0)
Rationality as Prudence: Another Reason for Rules (1999) (0)
Erratum to: Measurement of single-diffractive dijet production in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 8\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$ with the CMS and TOTEM experiments (2021) (0)
Justice and Global Politics: Equality, Hierarchy, and Global Justice (2006) (0)
Individualism and Political Disorder Introduction: Political Disorder and Decay (2014) (0)
Politics without rules, II: Distributive justice and distributive politics (1986) (0)
THE BEST OF THE OLL # 10 (2013) (0)
Adam Smith, James Buchanan, and Classical Liberalism (2006) (0)
Politics and Scientific Enquiry (2008) (0)
The Emergence of a Classical Liberal: A Confessional Exercise (2006) (0)
Generality and the political agenda (1998) (0)
Forty Years on, and Counting (2002) (0)
Tax Specification and Tax Limitation (1981) (0)
An Alternative Model of Distributive Majoritarian Politics (2016) (0)
POINCARÉ’S THEOREM FOR FUCHSIAN GROUPS (2011) (0)
Contemporary Democracy and the Prospect for Fiscal Control: Initial Thoughts about and Final Reactions to the Conference (1978) (0)
Educational films for biochemistry. (1974) (0)
The costs of collectivization, per se (2013) (0)
The constitutional imperative (1986) (0)
The myth of benevolence (1986) (0)
Generality and the supply of public services (1998) (0)
Classical Liberalism and the Perfectibility of Man (2006) (0)
NOTES ON HAYEK--Miami, 15 February, 1979 (2015) (0)
Rules and justice (1986) (0)
Eliminating the off-diagonals (1998) (0)
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Extending the argument (1998) (0)
Bibliography of James M. Buchanan's Publications, 1949-1986 (1987) (0)
The political shape of constitutional order (1998) (0)
Appointments and proceedings (1985) (0)
Die Entstehungsgeschichte der "Theory of games and economic behavior" . Die konzeptionellen Grundlagen der Spieltheorie einst und jetzt . Spieltheorie, Mathematik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft . Langzeiteffekte der "Theory of games and economic behavior" (2001) (0)
CONSTITUTIONAL EFFICIENCY AND THE (2004) (0)
Taxation, an international perspective : proceedings of an international Conference (1984) (0)
Book reviews (1977) (0)
Time temptation, and the constrained future (1986) (0)

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