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James M. Buchanan’s constitutional project: past and future

Public Choice, 2020
A substantial amount of James Buchanan’s academic work was devoted to his constitutional project: the development of procedures for designing constitutional rules that would create a government sufficient to protect people’s rights but that would constrain government from violating people’s rights.
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James M. Buchanan: Smithian Economist as Business Ethicist

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
We explore some of the key themes in the Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan’s classic works, showing how his ethical thinking, particularly in his Ethics and Economic Progress, apply to the problems facing firms and workers. We also explore how Buchanan’s ethical arguments pertain to the “public capital” of a flourishing society ...
Art Carden, Greg Caskey, Zachary Kessler
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James M. Buchanan: Through an Austrian window

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2014
This tribute to the late James Buchanan is an elaboration of themes he developed on the importance of processes in real, experienced time, especially for individual choice. The conventional way of modeling choice is to think of it as the solution to a constrained maximization problem.
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The power to tax : analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution

, 1981
J. Buchanan, Geoffrey Brennan
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JAMES M. BUCHANAN, CHICAGO, AND POST-WAR PUBLIC FINANCE

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2013
This paper examines James Buchanan’s earliest writings within the context of post-WWII public finance theory and his education at Chicago. Public choice scholars have long recognized their ties to Chicago, but few have examined Chicago’s role in serving as the primordial soup for Buchanan’s later work in public choice.
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James M. Buchanan: Political Economist, Consistent Individualist

2018
A common perception is that economic theory is based on a methodological individualism, while political economy adopts normative individualism as the standard of judgment. Kenneth Arrow voices this perception in asserting “it is a touchstone of accepted economics that all explanations must run in terms of the actions and reactions of individuals [and ...
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James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy

2017
James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan’s body of work. The book uses Buchanan’s past contributions to explore the present and future relevance of his scholarly contributions and insights.
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Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets

Journal of Political Economy, 1954
J. Buchanan
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Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking

, 2008
J. Buchanan
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The domain of constitutional economics

, 1990
J. Buchanan
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