"The Value of Rationally Reconstructing Buchanan's Work" with Richard Wagner

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Jayme Lemke interviews Richard Wagner on James Buchanan's life and legacy, his experience studying with James Buchanan, and future directions in Virginia political economy.

"Democracy in Chains" versus public choice

From the Cato Institute comes this Cato Daily Podcast audio in which Michael Munger is interviewed by Caleb O. Brown about Nancy Maclean's book Democracy in Chains. The book paints Nobel Laureate and Cato Distinguished Senior Fellow James Buchanan as the scholar who would help bring down democracy using the methods of public choice. Michael Munger of Duke University comments.

Learning across disciplines and perspectives

In this conversation Jayme Lemke and Peter Boettke discuss the commonalities between three approaches to understanding the social world: Austrian economics, public choice economics, and the Bloomington School’s multiple-methods, real-world approach to institutional analysis.

Virginia School of Political Economy

In these videos Jayme Lemke interviews Professor Donald Boudreaux of George Mason University on the Virginia School of Political Economy. In this discussion, Lemke and Boudreaux discuss the core insights of public choice economics.

Virginia School of Political Economy I: An Introduction to Public Choice


Virginia School of Political Economy II: The Continuing Relevance of Public Choice