Laureates in the Clemson Classroom: James Buchanan
Nobel Laureate James Buchanan visited the department on the 9th and 10th of October. Professor Buchanan won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, and is a central figure in the Virginia School of Political Economy.
Professor Buchanan’s visit is part of the department’s program to bring distinguished guest lecturers to the undergraduate classroom. Buchanan gave a lecture to Bob Tollison’s class in Moral and Ethical Economics, a seminar to the faculty on “Ethics and the Extent of the Market,” and spent a morning in the Russell D. Shannon Common Room discussing economics with students and faculty. Buchanan is the second Nobel Laureate in the past two years — along with 2005 Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor Vernon Smith — to speak formally with Clemson students in the lecture hall, and informally in the relaxed setting of the Common Room.
