James Buchanan

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04/28/2017 Interview Mises Institute James Buchanan

[From the Austrian Economics Newsletter, Fall 1987.] James McGill Buchanan is the founder of the New Political Economy called Public Choice. He had devoted his 40-year career to applying the economic...

An Interview with James Buchanan

07/30/2014 Austrian Economics Newsletter James Buchanan

Volume 9, Number 1 (Fall 1987) James Buchanan is interviewed on his recent award of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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