New Memorials of Jim Buchanan
Some noteworthy memorials have been published since my last post on memorials to Jim Buchanan . Perhaps most noteworthy are Geoff Brennan’s in Public Choice and Bob Tollison’s in the Southern Economic Journal . Links to both are gated, but most of the Brennan piece can be browsed free of charge. Both offer somewhat personal reflections. Geoff talks about Buchanan’s normative use of the word “optimal” — with reference to his own death — and how Buchanan wasn’t one to revise and keep coming back to prior works. Instead, he would just put it out…
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