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James M. Buchanan

1919 - 2013

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James McGill Buchanan Jr. ( bew-KAN-ən; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James M. Buchanan is the 82nd most popular economist (up from 86th in 2019), the 1,292nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,128th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Economist.

James Buchanan is most famous for being the president when the United States was on the brink of Civil War.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James M. Buchanan ranks 82 out of 414. Before him are Murray Rothbard, Finn E. Kydland, Beatrice Webb, Tjalling Koopmans, Oliver E. Williamson, and Albert O. Hirschman. After him are Cornelius Castoriadis, Eugen Dühring, William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher, Nikolai Kondratiev, and Dani Rodrik.

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Among people born in 1919, James M. Buchanan ranks 38. Before him are Donald J. Cram, Dino De Laurentiis, Abdirashid Shermarke, Andreas Papandreou, Leon Festinger, and Hans-Joachim Marseille. After him are Jennifer Jones, Gerhard Barkhorn, Oleg Penkovsky, César Manrique, Mordechai Anielewicz, and Martin Balsam. Among people deceased in 2013, James M. Buchanan ranks 49. Before him are Lawrence Klein, Jesús Franco, Ray Manzarek, Ieng Sary, James Gandolfini, and Masao Uchino. After him are Erich Priebke, Bert Trautmann, Don Shirley, Chinua Achebe, Gyula Horn, and Robert Fogel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James M. Buchanan ranks 1,292 out of 20,380. Before him are William Luther Pierce (1933), Kevin McCarthy (1965), Anthony Edwards (1962), A. E. Waite (1857), Jerry Goldsmith (1929), and Mike Shinoda (1977). After him are Howard Martin Temin (1934), William Fichtner (1956), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Joseph Campbell (1904), John Reed (1887), and John Jacob Astor IV (1864).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, James M. Buchanan ranks 24. Before him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), Thorstein Veblen (1857), James Tobin (1918), Robert Solow (1924), Murray Rothbard (1926), and Oliver E. Williamson (1932). After him are Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Reich (1946), Harry Markowitz (1927), George Stigler (1911), Claudia Goldin (1946), and Dale T. Mortensen (1939).

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