#FreeBookFriday: James M. Buchanan Edition

In 1986, James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work developing public choice theory. As luck would have it, Liberty Fund has made some of his most important works available online. Here are some of the most important ones.

Buchanan's Nobel Prize Page. It's not a "book," but it's an important resource.

Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory.

The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (with Gordon Tullock, who should have shared Buchanan's 1986 Nobel or won his own outright).

Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (with Richard Wagner).

The Reason of Rules (with Geoffrey Brennan).

There are other volumes in the Collected Works of James M. Buchanan available gratis from Liberty Fund; I wanted to highlight some of the best. Here's a paper I wrote with Audrey Redford and M. Scott King about Buchanan and the public choice tradition that you might find useful. Here's a piece based on work I did with Phillip W. Magness and Ilia Murtazashvili on the (false) claim that Buchanan was secretly in cahoots with Virginia's "Massive Resistance" to school desegregation.