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James M. Buchanan as an urban economist

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2023
This article explores James M. Buchanan’s contributions to urban economics and urban public finance. Buchanan never self-identified as an ‘urban economist’, so his contributions to the field have blended into his broader body of work on public finance and externalities.
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James M. Buchanan and “The Human Resource”

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
This paper describes James M. Buchanan’s analysis of human capital concepts in a class paper that he wrote in 1946 titled “Federalism: One Barrier to Labor Mobility.” The paper described how federal financing of human capital investments impeded labor mobility and formed the basis for his 1948 dissertation Fiscal Equity in a Federal State. Buchanan saw
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James M. Buchanan (1919-2013)

ORDO, 2013
Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag blickt zurück auf die bedeutsamen Stationen im akademischen Lebenslauf des am 9. Januar 2013 verstorbenen Nobelpreisträgers James M. Buchanan und bietet einen Überblick über die zentralen Gedanken seines wissenschaftlichen Werkes.
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James M. Buchanan

2008
James M. Buchanan was born on October 3, 1919, in Murfeesboro, Tennessee. He grew up on a farm in this area of the United States. His post-secondary school education consists of a B.A. degree from Middle Tennessee State University (1940), an M.A. degree in economics from the University of Tennessee (1941), and a Ph.D.
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James M. Buchanan: An appreciation

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2014
James M. Buchanan co-founded the field of Public Choice. He was influenced by Austrian economics, and in turn influenced Austrian economics. In particular, he advanced the understanding of subjectivist cost theory. His individualist approach to public policy making has been adopted by many Austrian economists.
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James M. Buchanan's Contributions to Economics

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1987
This survey of James M. Buchanan's contributions to economics is divided into eig ht main categories: the influence of Knut Wicksell and the pure theory of govern ment finance; the Italian tradition and the burden of national debt; the calculu s of consent; application of the public choice approach; application to public f inance; public goods and ...
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James M. Buchanan and the Public Choice Tradition

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
In 1986, the economist James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was honored with the Nobel Prize for the remarkable yet straightforward application of economic theory to political decisions. His was a constrained vision of imperfection and political motivation rather than an unconstrained vision of perfectible and malleable human nature. Buchanan was motivated by
Art Carden, Audrey Redford, M. Scott King, James Hanley   +3 more
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James M. Buchanan: from Chicago to Virginia and Knight's influence on Buchanan

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2018
This paper examines the influence of Frank Knight on James Buchanan during the latter's time as a student at the University of Chicago through to the successive periods of his life. We maintain that Knight's approach to economics and politics – in which individual freedom, (institutional) rules of the game and ethical rules are all paramount in ...
Francesco Forte, Gordon L. Brady
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