# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:38:41.191Z

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name: "James M. Buchanan"
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description: "James McGill Buchanan Jr. 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."
tagline: "American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)"
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birthDate: "1919-10-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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