I am deeply concerned about the apparent apathy of citizens everywhere, about the absence of outrage at the sometimes petty intrusions of governments into our lives, about the failure to appreciate developing crises in welfare democracies. Most fundamentally, I am disturbed by an apparent public failure to appreciate and to understand the relationships between the constitutional structure that defines the parameters of social-economic-political life and the patterns of outcomes that we observe. In the new century, more than ever, we must attend to the rules of the game.
— James M. Buchanan, “Notes on Nobelity” [1999]
- James M. Buchanan Short Biography
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics - The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock
Library of Economics and Liberty - Nobel Prize Lecture
by James M. Buchanan
Nobel E-Museum - Interview with James M. Buchanan
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - James M. Buchanan
Mercatus Center – GMU - Buchanan Bibliography
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