James M. Buchanan Jr.
Biographical
Born: | October 3, 1919, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA |
Civil Status: | Married (to Ann Bakke Buchanan on 5 October 1945), no children |
Education | |
1948 | Ph. D., University of Chicago |
1941 | M. S., University of Tennessee |
1940 | B. A., Middle Tennessee State College |
Current position and title | |
General Director, Center for Study of Public Choice, and Harris University | |
Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA | |
Past positions | |
1969 – 1983 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
1968 – 1969 | University of California, Los Angeles |
1956 – 1968 | University of Virginia |
Honors and awards | |
1984 | Frank Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy |
1984 | Doctor, h.c., University of Zurich |
1983 | Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association |
1982 | Doctor, h.c., University of Giessen |
Principal publications (books only) | |
Liberty, Market and State, Wheatsheaf, 1985* | |
The Reason of Rules (with G. Brennan), Cambridge University Press, 1985* | |
The Power to Tax (with G. Brennan) Cambridge University Press, 1980)* | |
What Should Economists Do?, Liberty Press, 1979 | |
Freedom in Constitutional Contract, Texas A & M University Press, 1978* | |
Democracy in Deficit (with R. Wagner), Academic Press, 1977* | |
The Limits of Liberty, University of Chicago Press, 1975* | |
Cost and Choice, Markham Press, 1969 | |
Demand and Supply of Public Goods, Rand McNally, 1968 | |
Public Finance in Democratic Process, University of North Carolina Press, 1967 | |
The Calculus of Consent, with G. Tullock; University of Michigan Press, 1962* | |
Fiscal Theory and Political Economy, University of North Carolina Press, 1960* | |
Public Principles of Public Debt, Richard D. Irwin, 1958 |
*Books most directly relevant to Nobel Award.
James M. Buchanan Jr. died on 9 January 2013.
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