Jim Buchanan's Address to the Southern Economic Association

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Good economic theory is about explaining what we observe people doing. Buchanan makes that point very clearly, ande he gets people miss it. Paul crigman looks at the ain world very much. Th wost modern aconis modern ecoomy. Even better. And i think the last parcast we did was on jim buchanan. There's a connection here with JIM BUCHANNA. Jim buchanan's presidential address to the southern economic association,. which was published, i thinkiwas 19 63, a call, what should economist do? I bu and buchanan wrote this when he was still a colleague with coth, i believe, at u v

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