Front Page Authors (by Period) James M. Buchanan

James M. Buchanan

1919 - —

About the Author

In 1986 James M. Buchanan (1919-) was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Universally respected as one of the founders of the “public choice” school of economics, he is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles in the areas of public finance, public choice, constitutional economics and economic philosophy. He is best known for such works as The Calculus of Consent, The Limits of Liberty, The Power to Tax, and The Reason of Rules. Buchanan has devoted himself to the study of the contractural and constitutional basis for the theory of economic and political decision making.

See also at our sister website Econlib:

• the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics entry on Buchanan

In The Library:

• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan in 20 vols. (1999)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 2. (Public Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement) (1958)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 3. (The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy) (1962)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 4. (Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice) (1967)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 5. (The Demand and Supply of Public Goods) (1968)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 6 (Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory) (1969)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, vol. 7 (The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan) (1975)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, vol. 8 (Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes) (1977)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 9 (The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution) (1980)
• author: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10 (The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy) (1985)
• author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (Part 1) (2001)
• author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (Part 2) (2001)
• editor: L.S.E. Essays on Cost (1937)
• author: The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, 7 vols. (2000)
• author: The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, vol. 7 Morality and Community in the Extended Market Order (2000)