In 1986, the economist James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) was honored with the Nobel Prize for the remarkable yet straightforward application of economic theory to political decisions. His was a constrained vision of imperfection and political motivation rather than an unconstrained vision of...

Woodrow Wilson’s rhetorical presidency has grown into the demagogic presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The demagogic presidency is defined in terms of Weberian charisma, as a secular political prophet with soulless followers. The cause of this development is “lower case c”...

James M. Buchanan’s 1969 book Cost and Choice speaks directly to the socialist calculation debate from the perspective of the “London Tradition” in the theory of cost. More than this, however, it places Buchanan alongside Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman as an exemplar of...

Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible? / Kathryn McPherson (York University) -- “One foot on each side of the border:” Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health, and “Socialized” Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s / J.T.H. Connor (Memorial University) -- “One foot...