James McGill Buchanan

Angus Burgin's The Great Persuasion, for example, moves from Hayek to the Chicago branch associated with Milton Friedman, while Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains profiles the Virginia branch centered around James McGill Buchanan. Both books show how deep-pocketed businessmen helped ...

Meanwhile, in the midst of the furor, Nobel Laureate economist and Richmond resident James M. Buchanan was making himself the hard right's intellectual founding father by elaborating economic theories that mimicked the segregationists' playbook. He, like they condemned the tyranny of overreaching ...

MacLean, a professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, shows how a handful of economists, initially guided by James McGill Buchanan's “public choice” theory, attracted immense financial support from key billionaires—most importantly Charles Koch. Under Buchanan's theory, for which he ...

University of Virginia economist James M. Buchanan provided the blueprint for the libertarian movement. MacLean says her research uncovered the operation that he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to limit participatory democracy through Constitutional ...

Paul attended; James Madison High School, Old Dominion College, VCU, and received his PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech where he studied under Nobel Memorial Prize winner, James M. Buchanan. Paul's passion was public choice theory as it applies to economics. He held a number of positions ...

National Book Award Finalist Nancy MacLean will discuss her book “Democracy in Chains,” a thoroughly researched narrative that follows Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan and the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of ...

Insight into this conundrum comes from an unlikely source, the life's work of the economist James McGill Buchanan — who happens to be the subject of a new book, “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America,” by the historian Nancy MacLean. Buchanan, who ...

It was stuffed with the unsorted archives of a man who had died that year whose name is probably unfamiliar to you: James McGill Buchanan. She says the first thing she picked up was a stack of confidential letters concerning millions of dollars transferred to the university by the billionaire Charles Koch.

Nancy MacLean, author of an intellectual biography of James McGill Buchanan, explains how this little-known libertarian's work is influencing modern-day politics. By Rebecca Onion. Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Photos by MBisanz, Dechateau, Atlas Network. Photo illustration by Natalie ...

But what sets Democracy in Chains apart is that it begins in the South, and emphasizes a genuinely original and very influential political thinker, the economist James M. Buchanan. He is not so well remembered today as his fellow Nobel laureates Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Yet as MacLean convincingly shows, ...

He was the advisory general director at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was an expert on public choice theory, deficit spending, bureaucracy, and public finance. Buchanan was the coauthor with Geoffrey Brennan of The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political ...

“As we fail to make progress on entitlement reform with each passing year, Professor Buchanan's essentially moral critique of deficit spending looks more prophetic.” James McGill Buchanan Jr. was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Oct. 2, 1919, the son of a farmer and a schoolteacher, Lila Scott Buchanan.

“As we fail to make progress on entitlement reform with each passing year, Professor Buchanan's essentially moral critique of deficit spending looks more prophetic.” James McGill Buchanan Jr. was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Oct. 2, 1919, the son of a farmer and a schoolteacher, Lila Scott Buchanan.

She researched the many years of accumulated papers of the deceased economist, James McGill Buchanan. She gleaned from those papers the answer to the country's trajectory from democracy to oligarchy. The stark reality lies in the philosophy that he espoused. It's called libertarianism. Libertarianism ...