biography
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Buchanan, James M(cGill)
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pronunciation:
[byookanan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Economist and educator, born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA. He studied at universities in Tennessee and in Chicago, and taught at the University of Virginia from 1956. He became director of the Center for Study of Public Choice in 1969, and joined George Mason University in 1983. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1986 for his work on the theory of public choice, a unique method of analyzing economic and political decision-making. |
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