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James McGill Buchanan Jr.

(1919- )

James Buchanan is an economist most renowned for his work 'Public Choice Theory', and won the 1986 Nobel prize in Economic Science.

He has long been a professor at George Mason University.

His work in economics included rigorious analysis of the theory of logrolling.

Major Works of James M. Buchanan

- The Pure Theory of Public Finance: A suggested approach, 1949
- Individual Choice in Voting and the Market, 1954
- Social Choice in Voting and Free Markets, 1954
- Public Principles of Public Debt, 1958
- Positive Economics, Welfare Economics and Political Economy, 1959
- Fiscal Theory and Political Economy, 1960
- Externality, with W.C. Stubblebine, 1962
- The Calculus of Consent: Logical foundations for constitutional democracy, with G. Tullock, 1962
- What Should Economists Do?, 1964
- Ethical Rules, Expected Values and Large Numbers, 1965
- Economics and Its Scientific Neighbors, 1966
- Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal institutions and democratic choice, 1967
- Demand and Supply of Public Goods, 1968
- An Economist's Approach to Scientific Politics, 1968
- Cost and Choice: An inquiry into economic theory, 1969
- Is Economics the Science of Choice?, 1969
- Notes for an Economic Theory of Socialism, 1970
- Academia in Anarchy, with N.Devletoglou, 1971
- Equality as Fact and Norm, 1971
- Before Public Choice, 1973
- The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, 1975
- Public Finance and Public Choice, 1975
- A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory, 1975
- Barro on the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem, 1976
- Methods and Morals in Economics, 1976
- Democracy in Deficit: the political legacy of Lord Keynes, with R.E. Wagner, 1977
- Markets, States and the Extent of Morals, 1978
- Freedom in Constitutional Contract, 1978
- What Should Economists Do?, 1979
- The Power to Tax: the analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution, with G. Brennan, 1980
- The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs, with R.D. Tollison, 1981
- The Domain of Subjective Economics: Between predictive science and moral philosophy, 1982
- Order Defined in the Process of Emergence, 1982
- The Reason of Rules: constitutional political economy with G. Brennan, 1985
- Liberty, Market and the State, 1986
- The Constitution of Economic Policy, 1987
- Economics: between predictive science and moral philosophy, with G. Brennan, 1988
- Explorations in Constitutional Economics, 1989
- The Economics and Ethics of Constitutional Order, 1991
- From the Inside Looking Out, 1991
- Constitutional Economics
- Better than Ploughing and other personal essays. 1992
- Economic freedom and competitive federalism: prospects for the new century, 1996
- Generalized Increasing Returns, Euler's Theorem, and Competitive Equilibrium, with Yong J. Yoon, 1999
- Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, 1999

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