The recent death of James M. Buchanan, the father of public-choice economics, is reason to reflect on his sage warnings. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1986 for bringing to the study of government and the behavior of government officials the same rigorous analysis that economists had long applied to private economic decision-making.
公共选择经济学之父詹姆斯·布坎南刚刚去世，我们应该好好反思一下他先见之明式的警告。1986年，布坎南因将经济学家使用已久的对私人经济决策的有效分析引入对政府和政府官员行为的研究而获得诺贝尔经济学奖。布坎南认为，政客对私人利益的追求不可避免地会导致糟糕的结果。