Re: James Buchanan was never a bureaucrat!

["Dr. Subroto Roy" <sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in>]

"Buchanan was a bureaucrat who entered academic
>economics, and founded the public choice school which speaks much sense"

I went to the USA in 1980 to work with Professor Buchanan at VPI.  Our
association has been a long and friendly one ever since, and after his
Nobel
I had the privilege of inviting him to the University of Hawaii in March
1987, to deliver five lectures on public-choice theory and practice, which
were published by the University Press and edited and with an introduction
by me.

Please let me assure you that Jim Buchanan has never been a bureaucrat!  
He
was an aide to Admiral Nimitze during World War II, he later joined the
University of Chicago and became a disciple of Frank Knight.  He has always
been an academic since then,
mostly at the University of Virginia, then at Virginia Tech, then, since
1983 or so, at George Mason.

SR.





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