James M. Buchanan Quotes

• Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

  James M. Buchanan

  Different, Incentives, Politician

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• People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.

  James M. Buchanan

  People, Effort, Investment

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• How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

  James M. Buchanan

  People, Different, Today

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• Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

  James M. Buchanan

  Precioso

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• If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

  James M. Buchanan

  Attitude, Cutting, Taxation

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• Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have to get people to treat the idea of a free society as a civic religion or a faith. We need to fight for that faith.

  James M. Buchanan

  Fighting, Ideas, People

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• The assumption that we can keep societies open and free to everybody is going to have to stop. We are going to have to recognize that some people simply are not qualified and do not want to belong a civil order. Until we begin to make discrimination along those lines, then I think we are going to be extremely vulnerable.

  James M. Buchanan

  Pensamiento, Orden, Gente

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• You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

  James M. Buchanan

  Gdp, Rights, Government

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• Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Might, Anarchist

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• We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.

  James M. Buchanan

  Meaningful, People, Levels

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• If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.

  James M. Buchanan

  Opportunity, Giving, Office

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• If you are going to spend for one group, you have to spend the same for every group, just like if you tax one group you have to tax everybody. You have to go back to having more general laws, more general taxes and more general spending programs.

  James M. Buchanan

  Law, Groups, Program

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• Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

  James M. Buchanan

  Filosofía, Real, Política

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• America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

  James M. Buchanan

  America, Community, Sometimes

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• I think the world has changed dramatically since September 11th. It should force us to recognize that we are going to have to defend the free institutions of our society against those who are simply not willing to belong to a civil order.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Order, September 11

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• Políticamente, a veces se dan situaciones en las que el control de alquileres sale adelante. Esto es especialmente cierto en situaciones de emergencia, cuando se produce un aumento repentino y brusco de la demanda de vivienda o un recorte de la oferta. La gente sencillamente no permite que el mercado asigne los recursos de vivienda, y entonces surgen presiones para controlar los alquileres. Una vez que se tiene, es difícil eliminarlo.

  James M. Buchanan

  Cutting, People, Demand

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• Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.

  James M. Buchanan

  Queens, Opportunity, Giving

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• El control de los alquileres es una política a la que los economistas se opondrían universalmente. Es una forma extremadamente ineficaz de asignar el espacio de la vivienda y, por supuesto, inhibe la construcción y crea la misma cosa que se supone que debe aliviar. Es una de esas cosas en las que la gente simplemente no entiende la economía simple y, por lo tanto, pone por razones políticas lo que perjudicará a las mismas personas a las que está diseñado para ayudar. El salario mínimo es otro ejemplo clásico.

  James M. Buchanan

  Simple, Space, People

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• If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.

  James M. Buchanan

  Past, Sheep, People

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• Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.

  James M. Buchanan

  People, Trying, Canada

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• It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Favors, Might

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• I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.

  James M. Buchanan

  Running, Mean, Creating

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• You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.

  James M. Buchanan

  País, América, Gobierno

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• We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.

  James M. Buchanan

  Trying, Special, Would Be

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