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Nobel Laureate: On James Buchanan's Contributions to Public Economics

Author(s) -

Thomas Romer

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.2.4.165

Subject(s) - nobel laureate , politics , public choice , positive economics , political science , law and economics , economics , law , philosophy , linguistics , poetry

The 1986 Nobel Prize in economic science was awarded to James Buchanan. What the Nobel committee recognized in making its award was Buchanan's central role in the gradual transformation of the way economists and political scientists study governments and their relationship to the governed. In this essay, I will focus on Buchanan's contributions to public economics, especially his linking of economic and political concerns. Table 1 lists the 21 works by James Buchanan cited in this essay.

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