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The soul of James Buchanan?

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Brennan, G; Munger, M
Published in: Independent Review
December 1, 2014

The article reflects on the views and life of James M. Buchanan. The Buchanan family had a political past: Buchanan's grandfather had briefly been governor of Tennessee in the early 1890s as a member of the populist People's Party. This party was a coalition of agrarian interests mainly poor cotton and wheat farmers from the South and the West. Throughout his professional career, Buchanan called himself a classical liberal. As indicated, this was something he learned from Frank Knight and that he held accordingly as a matter of intellectual conviction rather than personal inclination, which he always acknowledged was closer to 'libertarian socialist.'. He viewed politics as arising from agreements. But the agreements were founded in a notion of exchange rather than in some fixed notion of consensus on a single policy or choice. As a consequence, his conception of politics was encompassing and multidimensional, allowing agreement to be achieved through accommodations or compromises such as logrolls.

Duke Scholars

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Independent Review

ISSN

1086-1653

Publication Date

December 1, 2014

Volume

18

Issue

3

Start / End Page

331 / 342

Related Subject Headings

  • General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 1402 Applied Economics
 

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Brennan, G., & Munger, M. (2014). The soul of James Buchanan? Independent Review, 18(3), 331–342.
Brennan, G., and M. Munger. “The soul of James Buchanan?Independent Review 18, no. 3 (December 1, 2014): 331–42.
Brennan G, Munger M. The soul of James Buchanan? Independent Review. 2014 Dec 1;18(3):331–42.
Brennan, G., and M. Munger. “The soul of James Buchanan?Independent Review, vol. 18, no. 3, Dec. 2014, pp. 331–42.
Brennan G, Munger M. The soul of James Buchanan? Independent Review. 2014 Dec 1;18(3):331–342.

Published In

Independent Review

ISSN

1086-1653

Publication Date

December 1, 2014

Volume

18

Issue

3

Start / End Page

331 / 342

Related Subject Headings

  • General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 1402 Applied Economics