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22 Mar 2009, 10:15 pm
  The department has a wonderful reputation (and ranking) in law and economics (amongst other things of course: its entrepreneurial spirit and “Moneyball” philosophy, Austrian economics, Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, pirates, economic history, and bloggers … lots and lots of bloggers …), a plethora of fantastic and productive scholars, and a ton of folks that I’m looking forward to getting to know a little bit better… [read post]
Past presidents of the WEAI includes Nobel Laureates James Heckman (2007), Clive Granger (2003), Oliver Williamson (2000), Gary Becker (1997), Milton Friedman (1985), James Buchanan (1984), Kenneth Arrow (1981) and Douglass North (1976). [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 10:12 pm
Along with his longtime collaborator, Nobel Prize winner James Buchanan, Tullock was one of the founders of public choice theory, the application of economic models to the study of politics. their 1962 book, The Calculus of Consent, is probably the seminal work in the field. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 9:55 am
His most direct work on constitutional political economy is his joint work with James Buchanan, The Calculus of Consent (1962), which is widely acknowledged to be a classic work in the field. [read post]
7 Sep 2013, 7:31 pm by David Friedman
Coase left UVA for Chicago in 1964; Buchanan departed four years later." [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 2:46 pm by David Bernstein
The theme of the book is that Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, a founder of public choice economics and a libertarian fellow-traveler, was the intellectual leader of a cabal ultimately supported by Charles Koch intent on replacing American democracy with an oligarchy based on constitutional protections for property rights. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 9:05 pm
Here's the idea:Recent years have seen a blossoming of scholarship on the philosophical concept of human rights, and the related notion of human rights law, with contributions from authors as diverse as Allen Buchanan, Charles Beitz, Costas Douzinas, James Griffin, and Gunther Teubner. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 10:08 am
" if they will refrain from saying, "Nobel Prize winner [Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, fill in the blanks at will] pointed out [in some commentary not organically connected to the work for which the named person received the prize] that ... [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
As the clock struck noon on March 4, 1861, President James Buchanan and President-elect Abraham Lincoln left the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in a horse-drawn carriage bound for the Capitol and Lincoln’s first inauguration. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 8:02 am by David E. Bernstein
Stanford historian Jennifer Burns' long march through a terrible bookAs readers will recall, Duke history professor Nancy MacLean wrote a widely-publicized book, Democracy in Chains, that purports to be an intellectual history of the late public choice economist James Buchanan, and his asserted vast influence on current American politics. [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 10:11 am by David Friedman
I responded by commenting that I too was an admirer of Thompson's and remembered James Buchanan having once said something to the effect that Earl had the highest IQ of anyone he knew. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 10:50 pm
Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.) 2. [read post]
19 Aug 2017, 2:13 pm by Ilya Somin
In her seriously flawed recent book Democracy in Chains, historian Nancy MacLean argues that James Buchanan and many other libertarians are anti-democratic and that their supposed opposition to Brown v. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 6:19 pm
To find a former secretary of state who actually won you have to go back 150 years, to James Buchanan... [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 12:00 pm
Finally, Saint Joseph was where Jesse James was murdered in his home in 1882. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
., Room LJ-119, First floor, Thomas Jefferson Building:In his 1858 "House Divided" speech, Abraham Lincoln accused Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, outgoing President Franklin Pierce, president-elect James Buchanan, and Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of a conspiracy to perpetuate slavery in the United States. [read post]
12 Mar 2022, 9:07 am by binder'sblog
Prime Minister Anthony Eden President James Buchanan President Jimmy Carter Neville Chamberlain Commodus Lord Mayor of London During the Great London Fire Robert Mugabe Nero Santa Ana Tsar Nicholas II Lord North Kaiser Wilhelm II Mehmet Talaat, Ismail Enver and Ahmed Cemal, The Three Pashas [read post]