Buchanan James McGill

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

1919�, American economist, b. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. A professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969�83) and George Mason Univ. (1983�), he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his public choice theory that analyzes economic and political decision making. See his The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1962).