Editing James M. Buchanan (section)

===Center for Study of Public Choice===
In 1969, Buchanan, Tullock, and Charles J. Goetz established the Center for Study of Public Choice at [[Virginia Tech|Virginia Polytechnic Institute]] (VPI) in [[Blacksburg, Virginia]] with Buchanan as its first director.

In 1983, Buchanan relocated the entire Center for Study of Public Choice unit, which included its seven faculty members to George Mason University (GMU) in [[Fairfax, Virginia]].<ref name="Mitchell1988" /> Buchanan complained to then-GMU economics department chair Karen Vaughn that VPI was losing its status as unique center for public choice.<ref name="Vaughn_20150601">{{Cite journal |last=Vaughn |first=Karen |date=June 1, 2015 |title=How James Buchanan came to George Mason University |journal=[[Journal of Private Enterprise]] |volume=30 |pages=103–109 |issn=0890-913X |number=2}}</ref> Buchanan was offered an annual salary of over $100,000 at George Mason,<ref name="SCPB_AR_1985" />{{rp|27}} At the time, George Mason was a relatively unknown state university, having just gained independent status from the University of Virginia in 1972.<ref name="Vaughn_20150601" /> Buchanan was drawn to GMU's leadership.<ref name="SCPB_AR_1985">{{cite report |title=Center for Study of Public Choice Annual Report (1985)|series=Annual report |number=T151381398 |pages=43}}</ref>{{rp|27}} Vaughn stated that she believed the addition of the Center contributed to GMU's rapid growth.<ref name="Vaughn_20150601" /> Over the next decades, GMU became the largest public university in Virginia.<ref name="Barakat_20180430">{{Cite news |last=Barakat |first=Matthew |date=April 30, 2018 |title=Documents show ties between university, conservative donors |work=AP NEWS |location=Fairfax, Virginia |url=https://apnews.com/article/0c87e4318bcc4eb9b8e69f9f54c7b889 |access-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407185323/https://apnews.com/article/0c87e4318bcc4eb9b8e69f9f54c7b889 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Economist [[James C. Miller III]], who served as chairman of the [[Federal Trade Commission]] (FTC) and as [[United States Office of Management and Budget|Budget Director]] for then-US president [[Ronald Reagan]] consulted with Buchanan, Tullock, and Tollison at the center.<ref name="Vaughn_20150601"/>{{rp|25}} From 1998 to 2002 the Center functioned as part of James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 17, 2003 |title=About the James Buchanan Center |url=http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/about/about.html |access-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030217174830/http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/about/about.html |archive-date=February 17, 2003 }}</ref>