(Paperback)

This is volume 17 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.

(Hardback)

James McGill Buchanan (B 1919) is an American economist best known for his public choice theory. The founder of a new Virginia school of political economy, he has written extensively on subjects including public finance, macroeconomics, and libertarian theory. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986. This book tells his story.