NOBEL LAUREATE JAMES M. BUCHANAN’S (1919-2013) CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL ECONOMY

Year 2016, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 307 - 319, 01.06.2016

Coşkun Can Aktan

Abstract

This short paper aims to summarize the conributions of Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan to political economy from a personal perspective. In this short paper, I will try to write how Professor Buchanan has influenced my own writings and also his dominance and credit in the acedemia and politics

Keywords

James M. Buchanan, Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy

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