My GMU colleague James Buchanan is among the 2006 recipients of the White House’s National Humanities Medal. This award is both much-deserved and most-appropriate: no living economist has done as much as Jim to ground economics in the humanities — to show that economics, properly and wisely done, is not a species of social engineering but the core of the science of understanding that human society is organic.
Here’s the report on the award in today’s Washington Post.
