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James M. Buchanan
American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 October 1919
- Died
- 9 January 2013
- Place of birth
- Murfreesboro
- Place of death
- Blacksburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Buchanan
- Field of work
- economist, public choice theory
- Occupation
- economist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Adam Smith Award, National Humanities Medal, honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
- described by source
- Democracy in Chains
- different from
- James Buchanan
- doctoral advisor
- Frank Knight
- doctoral student
- Charles Plott, Randall G. Holcombe, Richard Edward Wagner, Mark V. Pauly, Charles Breeden, James Flinn Crook
- employer
- George Mason University, Florida State University, University of Virginia, University of Florida
- influenced by
- Thomas Hobbes, Knut Wicksell, Gordon Tullock, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises
- interested in
- economics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mont Pelerin Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, The Independent Institute, Institute of Economic Affairs
- name in native language
- James McGill Buchanan Jr.
- notable work
- public choice theory, The Calculus of Consent
- writing language
- English
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