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Applying economic analysis to voters, politicians, and bureaucrats to explain political behavior

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"Public choice theory has been the avenue through which a romantic and illusory set of notions about the workings of governments and the behavior of persons who govern has been replaced by a set of notions that embody more skepticism about what governments can do and what governors will do, notions that are surely more consistent with the political reality that we may all observe about us."

— Buchanan, James M. event 1999

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The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty

person Buchanan, James M. event 1999

Volume 1 of The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, gathering his key essays, including "Politics without Romance," his 1979 lecture explaining P...

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Buchanan, James M.

event 1919 - 2013

American economist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing Public Choice theory, which applies the tools of ec...