James M. Buchanan

Dr. John Meadowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Head of the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, UK. He is the author of The Ethics of the Market (2005) and co-author of Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (2007).

• 1. Buchanan's Intellectual Biography \ 2. Buchanan's Ideas \ 3. The Reception and Influence of Buchanan's Work \ 4. The Continuing and Future Relevance of Buchanan's Ideas \ Bibliography \ Index

Meadowcroft does a nice job of summarizing Buchanan’s published work, dividing Buchanan’s ideas logically rather than chronologically and showing how his ideas relate to each other… Meadowcroft’s taxonomy of Buchanan’s ideas is not the only possible one, but it seems like a good one, and someone wanting to get an overview of the general ideas in Buchanan’s large body of work would find Meadowcroft’s framework a good way of organizing those ideas.