James M. Buchanan’s Legacy for Liberty
ABSTRACT
This colloquium was designed to study the intellectual contribution of James M. Buchanan to the defense of liberty. To that end, it aimed at reading and discussing some of his main writings on political choice, social morality, constitutions and law, and political economy.
READING LIST
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Democracy in Deficit
by
By James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner
Foreword by Robert D. Tollison
Democracy in Deficit is one of the early comprehensive attempts to apply the basic principles of public-choice analysis to macroeconomic theory and policy.
According to Robert D. Tollison in the foreword, “The central purpose of the book was to examine the simple precepts of Keynesian economics through the lens of…
Additional Readings
Buchanan, James and Gordon Tullock. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 3: The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1999.
Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 13: Politics as Public Choice. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2000.
Buchanan, James M. The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty: The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 1. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1999.
Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James Buchanan, Volume 7: The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Inc., 2000.
Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 18: Federalism, Liberty, and the Law. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.
Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 16: Choice, Contract, and Constitutions. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.
Buchanan, James M. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 17: Moral Science and Moral Order. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.
Buchanan, James M. and Geoffrey Brennan. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 13: Politics as Public Choice. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2000.
Buchanan, James M. and Viktor J. Vanberg. The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Volume 18: Federalism, Liberty, and the Law. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.