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ECONOMIST

James M. Buchanan

1919 - 2013

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James McGill Buchanan Jr. (; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James M. Buchanan has received more than 698,803 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). James M. Buchanan is the 76th most popular economist (up from 80th in 2019), the 957th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,089th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Economist.

James Buchanan is most famous for being the president when the United States was on the brink of Civil War.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James M. Buchanan ranks 76 out of 315. Before him are James Tobin, Reinhard Selten, Tansu Çiller, Trygve Haavelmo, Nikolai Kondratiev, and Jean-Claude Trichet. After him are Murray Rothbard, Charles Cooley, Gottfried Feder, Richard Thaler, Arthur Cecil Pigou, and Harry Markowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, James M. Buchanan ranks 28. Before him are Hans-Joachim Marseille, Boris Shcherbina, Dino De Laurentiis, Jack Palance, Lex Barker, and Leon Festinger. After him are Jennifer Jones, Andreas Papandreou, Moïse Tshombe, Siad Barre, Matilde Camus, and Godfrey Hounsfield. Among people deceased in 2013, James M. Buchanan ranks 38. Before him are Erich Priebke, Richard Griffiths, Jovanka Broz, Boris Berezovsky, Ray Manzarek, and Gylmar dos Santos Neves. After him are Ieng Sary, Ronald Dworkin, Jerome Karle, Nagisa Oshima, Jesús Franco, and Richard Matheson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James M. Buchanan ranks 957 out of 18,182. Before him are Timothy Leary (1920), Don Cherry (1936), Dr. Dre (1965), John Sherman (1823), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), and Scott Glenn (1939). After him are Shelley Winters (1920), Jennifer Jones (1919), Richard Rorty (1931), Daniel Dennett (1942), Murray Rothbard (1926), and Carl Weathers (1948).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, James M. Buchanan ranks 18. Before him are Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Solow (1924), Theodore Schultz (1902), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), and James Tobin (1918). After him are Murray Rothbard (1926), Charles Cooley (1864), Richard Thaler (1945), Harry Markowitz (1927), Edmund Phelps (1933), and Paul Krugman (1953).

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