James M. Buchanan

✶October 3, 1919

†January 9, 2013

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James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986.

American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)

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