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Towards a Theory of the Rent Seeking Society with James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1980. Theory of Public Choice II with James M. Buchanan. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984. Smoking and Society: Toward a Balanced Assessment Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1986. (Japanese ...
A 19th-century precursor of modern public choice theory was the work of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell, [10] which treated government as political exchange, a quid pro quo, in formulating a benefit principle linking taxes and expenditures. [11]
The National Conference of State Societies (NCSS) was charted by Congress on April 3, 1952, when President Harry Truman signed Public Law 82-293 (36 U.S.C. 1505).But the association was also known by other names in the early 20th and late 19th Century and the early roots date back to at least a listing of officers in the Congressional Directory of 1876 when the group was known as the Central ...
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (or LBJ School of Public Affairs) is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970. The school offers training in public policy analysis and administration in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors.
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) (Pub. L. 89–329) was legislation signed into United States law on November 8, 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda. Johnson chose Texas State University (then called "Southwest Texas State College"), his alma mater, as the signing site. [1]
Randall Gregory Holcombe (born June 4, 1950) is an American economist, and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. [1] He is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, [2] a Senior Fellow and member of the Research Advisory Council at The James Madison Institute, [3] and past president of the Public Choice Society. [4]
A number of honors societies exists on campus including Golden Key [89] and the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. [90] Texas State was a charter member of Alpha Chi when it was created as the Scholarship Societies of the South in 1927. [16]: 47 Texas State also has an active chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity.
James McGill Buchanan Jr. (/ b juː ˈ k æ n ə n / bew-KAN-ən; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory [1] originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962.