Better Than Plowing and Other Personal Essays

by James M. Buchanan

"The simple exchange of apples and oranges between two traders--this institutional model is the starting point for all that I have done," writes Buchanan. "Contrast this with the choice between apples and oranges in the utility-maximizing calculus of Robinson Crusoe. This is] what most economists do."

James M. Buchanan has always seemed an outsider--to establishment America, to the political values of modern academia, and to the orthodoxies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226078167
• ISBN13: 9780226078168
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"