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Nobel Prize-winning economist comes to BGSU
BOWLING GREEN, O.—Dr. James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, will speak at Bowling Green State University
on Oct. 21.
Regarded as one of the most influential intellectuals of recent times, Buchanan will present the keynote address at the Social
Philosophy and Policy Center’s conference on Justice and Global Politics, to be held Oct. 21-23. Buchanan will begin his Oct.
21 address at 8 p.m. in the McFall Center Assembly Room. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Best known as a founding father of "public choice economics," Buchanan received the Nobel Prize in 1986 for the analysis of
the contractual and constitutional fundamentals of the theory of economic and political choice. Public choice scholarship
has profoundly influenced thinking in the scientific community and the formation of public attitudes. Economics traditionally
focuses on the behavior of firms and consumers and how individuals interact in market settings. As a research program, public
choice extends the tools of economics to analyze the behavior of voters, candidates, legislators, bureaucrats, judges and
so on.
Buchanan remains Advisory General Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He retired
in 1999 as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics from George Mason and as University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Economics and Philosophy from Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
He is the author of hundreds of articles and 13 books, the most famous of which was “The Calculus of Consent” (1962), authored
with fellow economist Gordon Tullock. Several universities around the world have awarded him the doctorate honoris causa.
Buchanan earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1948. He received a bachelor's degree from Middle Tennessee State
University in 1940 and a master's degree in economics in 1941 from the University of Tennessee. He served in the Navy for
four years receiving a Bronze Star for distinguished service, before returning to graduate school.
Conference sessions will run through Saturday afternoon. Fourteen distinguished philosophers, political scientists, economists
and lawyers from the most prestigious universities around the country will discuss a wide range of issues of public interest,
such as the legitimacy of the war in Iraq, challenges posed by the war against terror, the morality of preemptive attacks,
the role of multilateralism in combating terrorism, and the role Western nations should play in promoting democracy around
the world.
In addition to Buchanan, speakers include Dr. Svetozar Pejovich, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Texas A&M University;
Dr. Samuel Freeman, the Steven F. Goldstone Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Irving
Louis Horowitz, the Hannah Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, and Dr. Chandran Kukathas,
the Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory at the University of Utah.
All sessions will be held in the McFall Center Gallery. For more information about this and other events presented by the
center, visit http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/sppc.
(Posted October 12, 2004 )
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