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At the University of Virginia in the 1960s Public Finance was an upper level course taught by Mr. Buchanan. Everyone was referred to as “Mr.” at the University of Virginia and the daily-required dress for classes was coat and tie. No student would have imagined calling Mr. Buchanan “Jim.” I recall how the class was conducted. His style was to assign either papers or a topic for reading and students were required to produce written documents of no more than a page or two on each assignment. This ritual began the first week.
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Plott, C.R. (2002). Mr. Buchanan — Some Episodes from the Life of a University of Virginia Graduate Student in the Early 1960s. In: Brennan, G., Kliemt, H., Tollison, R.D. (eds) Method and Morals in Constitutional Economics. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04810-8_31
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