James M. Buchanan

 

"Using archival material and first-person recollections from relevant figures, we reconstruct James Buchanan’s mission to 'save the books' in economics and political economy."

A very cool new paper by Peter Boettke and John Kroenecke in the latest issue of Public Choice with an interesting case study.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-020-00798-2

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The real purpose of the program: a case study in James M. Buchanan’s efforts at academic entrepreneurship to “save the books” in economics - Public Choice

Using archival material from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Political Economy and first-person recollections from relevant figures, we reconstruct James M. Buchanan’s mission (in partnership with G. Warren Nutter) to “save the books” in the related but distinct disciplines of eco...