James M. Buchanan Lecture Archive

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The James M. Buchanan Lecture series is named for Professor James M. Buchanan. Dr. Buchanan was winner of the Alfred B. Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986, which recognized his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision making. The Lecture series features programming and speakers devoted to public choice discourse and draws its inspiration from Dr. Buchanan's pioneering scholarship. The James M. Buchanan Lecture Archive contains video from the Buchanan Lectures in MPEG-4 encoding. Other digital objects in the collection include supporting materials, such as speakers' lecture papers, photographs, invitations to, and programs for the lectures.

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    James M. Buchanan Lecture, April 7, 2006, George Mason University
    (2006-04-07) Multiple authors
    Materials from the James M. Buchanan Lecture of April 7, 2006. The Lecture, named for James M. Buchanan, the 1986 winner of the Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics, features distinguished scholars in fields of economics related to Public Choice Theory. Materials related to this title include: Video of lecture - containing: Opening Remarks by David Levy Director, Center for Public Choice; Welcome by Peter Stearns, Provost, George Mason University; Electronic Exhibit by Robert Vay, Special Collections & Archives, George Mason University Libraries; McCloskey, Buchanan, and the Return to Analytical Egalitarianism by Sandra Peart, Professor of Economics, Baldwin-Wallace College; The Hobbes Problem: From Machiavelli to Buchanan by Dierdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago and Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam; Comments by James Buchanan, Advisory General Director, Center for Study of Public Choice, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, George Mason University. Invitation to Lecture Program for Lecture
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    James M. Buchanan Lecture, November 11, 2008, George Mason University
    (2008-11-11)
    Materials from the James M. Buchanan Lecture of November 11, 2007. The Lecture, named for James M. Buchanan, the 1986 winner of the Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics, features distinguished scholars in fields of economics related to Public Choice Theory. Materials related to this title include: Video of lecture - containing: Welcome by John Zenelis, George Mason University Librarian; Short Film: Daring to be Different: Reflections on the Life and Work of James M. Buchanan by Special Collections & Archives, George Mason University Libraries and Buchanan House, George Mason University; Introduction by Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Main Lecture: "Liberty & the Rule of Law: Why are Developing Countries so Resistant" by Bary R. Weingast, Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University; Comments and Questions. Paper for Main Lecture, Invitation to Lecture, Program for Lecture.
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    Daring to Be Different: Reflections on the Life and Work of James M. Buchanan
    (2008-11-11) Donnelly, Leah; Fielding, Adam; Fisher, Veronica; Patton, Sarah; Vay, Robert; Burgess, Jo Ann
    Video produced by George Mason University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives staff with assistance from the Center for Public Choice. It was presented at the second lecture in the James M. Buchanan Lecture Series on November 11, 2008. Film summarizes the life and career of James M. Buchanan and features interviews with George Mason University Economics professors Peter Boettke, Donald Boudreaux, Tyler Cowen; and Thomas Borcharding (Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate University) and Dwight Lee (William J. O'Neil Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University). Total run time is 8 minutes, 34 seconds.