James M. Buchanan Jr. (1919-)

Premiu Nobel  1986

Economist nordamerican, nascut la 2 octombrie la Murfreesboro (Tennessee). A obtinut Premiul Nobel in Economie in 1986 pentru dezvoltarea bazelor contractuale si constitutionale ale teoriei adoptarii deciziilor economice si politice.

Buchanan a studiat in universitatile din Tennessee si Chicago si a predat in Universitatile din  Pennsylvania si Virginia. Specialist in proprietate publica, realizeaza studii interesante asupra rolului inflatiei ca impozit si asupta naturii datoriei publice. Este lider si teoretician al curentului  Public Choice ce analizeaza forma in care se adopta deciziile publice ce influenteaza functionarea sistemului economic.

Alte lucrari:

• "Individual Choice in Voting and the Market", 1954, JPE
• "Social Choice in Voting and the Market", 1954, JPE
• Public Principles of Public Debt, 1958.
• "Positive Economics, Welfare Economics and Political Economy", 1959, J Law Econ
• Fiscal Theory and Political Economy, 1960.
• "Externality", with W.C. Stubblebine, 1962, Economica
• The Calculus of Consent: Logical foundations for constitutional democracy, con G. Tullock, 1962.
• "What Should Economists Do?", 1964, Southern EJ
• "Ethical Rules, Expected Values and Large Numbers", 1965, Ethics
• "Economics and Its Scientific Neighbors", 1966, in Krupp, editor, Structure of Economic Science
• Public Finance in Democratic Process, 1967.
• Demand and Supply of Public Goods, 1968.
• "An Economist's Approach to Scientific Politics", 1968, in Parsons, editor, Perspectives in the Study of Politics.
• Cost and Choice: An inquiry into economic theory, 1969.
• "Is Economics the Science of Choice?", 1969, in Streissler, editor, Roads to Freedom
• "Notes for an Economic Theory of Socialism", 1970, Public Choice
• Academia in Anarchy, with N.Devletoglou, 1971.
• "Equality as Fact and Norm", 1971, Ethics
• "Before Public Choice", 1973, in Tullock, editor, Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy
• The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, 1975.
• "Public Finance and Public Choice", 1975, National Tax Journal
• "A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory", 1975, AER
• "Barro on the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem", 1976, JPE
• "Methods and Morals in Economics", 1976, in Breit and Culbertson, editors, Science and Ceremony
• Democracy in Deficit: the political legacy of Lord Keynes, with R.E. Wagner, 1977.
• "Markets, States and the Extent of Morals", 1978, AER
• Freedom in Constitutional Contract, 1978.
• What Should Economists Do?, 1979.
• The Power to Tax: the analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution, with G. Brennan, 1980.
• "The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs", with R.D. Tollison, 1981, AER
• "The Domain of Subjective Economics: Between predictive science and moral philosophy", 1982, in Kirzner, editor, Method, Process and Austrian Economics
• "Order Defined in the Process of Emergence", 1982, Literature of Liberty
• The Reason of Rules: constitutional political economy with G. Brennan, 1985.
• Liberty, Market and the State, 1986.
• Economics: between predictive science and moral philosophy, with G. Brennan, 1988.
• Explorations in Constitutional Economics, 1989.
• The Economics and Ethics of Constitutional Order, 1991.