An overview of the economic theories of James McGill Buchanan, Jr.

Tankobon Hardcover. Very Good. In Japanese. 1987 first Japanese edition, Taga Publishing (Tokyo, Japan), 6 x 8 1/2 inches tall brown faux leather hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, ix, 312 pp. A very good to near fine copy in a like dust jacket, which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~AA~ An overview of the economic theories of James McGill Buchanan, Jr. (1919-2013), an American economist known for his work on public choice theory (included in his most famous work The Calculus of Consent), for which he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization and other non-wealth maximizing considerations affect their decision making. He was a member of the Board of Advisors of The Independent Institute, a member (and for a time the President) of the Mont Pelerin Society, a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and professor at George Mason University.