James M. Buchanan
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919-2013)
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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.
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Mario BenedettiAlso won honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid
Lawrence KleinAlso won Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
Stephen E. AmbroseAlso won National Humanities Medal
Lawrence SummersAlso won Adam Smith Award
Lynn MargulisAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
Oliver HartAlso won Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelAbout this person
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deceased
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Lived 1919 to 2013 · aged 93
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