The Essential James Buchanan (Essential Scholars)

Donald J. Boudreaux

James (“Jim”) McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), surely seemed an unlikely prospect for winning a Nobel Prize in Economics when he was born in rural Tennessee on October 3rd. Many of the works on Buchanan’s extensive list of publications stemmed from a...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction: Who Was James M. Buchanan?

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Chapter 1: The “Organismic” versus the Individualistic Conception of Collective Choice

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Chapter 2: On the Burden of Government Debt

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Chapter 3: The Individualistic Approach to Fiscal Policy

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Chapter 4: Subjective Costs

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Chapter 5: Clubs and Externalities

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Chapter 6: Ethics and Economics

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Chapter 7: Politics, Science, and Subjectivism

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Chapter 8: Politics as Exchange

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Chapter 9: Constitutional Economics

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Chapter 10: What Should Economists Do—and Not Do?

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Ending Credits

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