James M. Buchanan, who died Wednesday, concluded that a government's rules often favor its own expansion. He furthered 'public choice theory,' which says that politicians and others tend to act in ...

Controversy has recently arisen around James M. Buchanan, the economist and Nobel laureate who died in 2013, because of the book “Democracy in Chains” by Nancy MacLean. MacLean calls Buchanan ...

If one were to name an official Recently Deceased Nobel Laureate of the Age of Trump, the economist James M. Buchanan would be a good candidate. In 2017, Buchanan was the focus of two books and a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan, who helped develop the public choice theory of economics, has died. He was 93. Family members said in a news release from ...

Georg Vanberg, professor of political science and law at Duke University, asked me to post the short essay below on his behalf. Much ink has been spilled over Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains ...

Today’s passing of Nobel Economist James M. Buchanan is a sad milestone, but good time to remember his impact on economics.

James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died.

James M. Buchanan, the 1986 recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics who died on Jan. 9 at age 93, was a revolutionary in his field. He insisted economics was much more than its traditional ...

James M. Buchanan, who died Wednesday at age 93, was one of history's greatest economists. Though he won the Nobel Prize in 1986, Jim at heart was always a farm boy from Tennessee—an old ...

The New York Times has a long and interesting obituary for Nobel-winning economist James M. Buchanan, whom Brian Doherty wrote about this morning. Some ...

Much ink has been spilled over Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains,” a book that places Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan at the center of a right-wing conspiracy to undermine American ...

James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93. He died ...