A thought-provoking look at the presidency of James Buchanan, whose administration paved the way for the onslaught of the Civil War, details his failures as a president--his inability to resolve the issue of slavery, his lack of compromise, his weak leadership in a time of national crisis, and more.[...]

Vilka politiska spelregler ska man enas om för att kunna få förnuftiga politiska beslut? Vad händer med beslutsfattandet när lagstiftarna själva deltar i det politiska spelet och har sina egna intressen att bevaka? James Buchanan (19192013) var en av pionjärerna bakom public choice-skolan, so[...]

Democracy in Deficit opened the door for much of the current work on political business cycles and the incorporation of public-choice considerations into macroeconomic theory. Even in the area of monetarism, Buchanan's landmark work has greatly influenced the sway of contemporary theorists away from[...]

""The Limits of Liberty" is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political [...]

Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, rather like the rules of the road, coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, is a matter of major concern. Appropriately interp[...]

THE CALCULUS OF CONSENT was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many books and academic enterprises throughout their careers. As Robert D Tollison states in the foreword: (this book) is a radical departure from the way democracies conduct their business. T[...]

In his foreword, Robert D Tollison identifies the main objective of Geoffrey Brennan and James M Buchanan's "The Reason of Rules": "...a book-length attempt to focus the energies of economists and other social analysts on the nature and function of the rules under which ordinary political life and m[...]

In his foreword, Geoffrey Brennan states, "The papers in this volume represent a coherent set of pieces focused on aspects of public-expenditure theory and constitute all of Buchanan's papers in this area." Buchanan's work on the subject of what governments should do and his insistence on Knut Wicks[...]