Public Choice Theories and US Politics

A new book - Democracy in Chains - by Duke University historian Nancy MacLean has generated a tremendous amount of controversy regarding the legacy of Nobel prize winning economist James Buchanan:

http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-New-History-of-the-Right-Has/240700

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Nancy-MacLean-Responds-to-Her/240699/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-architect-of-the-radical-right/528672/

James Buchanan’s Nobel Prize Lecture:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1986/buchanan-lecture.html