The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986
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James M. Buchanan Jr.
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986 was awarded to James M. Buchanan Jr. "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making."
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