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Opinion
Sept. 13, 2013 • 13
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Nobel economist is missed and remembered
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Fringe economist influenced professor’s education.
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by Cyril J.
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We continue to face big challeng-
es from those who do not believe in
federal aid to education and who
oppose adequate funding for stu-
dent aid.
I believe that an investment in
James M. Buchanan Jr., winner of the Nobel Memorial
Prize in Ecomonic Sciences in 1986. Courtesy
“I think it’s pretty cool
that it's included in
our tuition because
now there's no wait-
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Isaac Alvarez, radio-television-
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Cyril J. Morong is a professor of economics at
this college.
“As a driver it was easy,
I didn’t have to go out
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introduced legislation to make this
tax credit permanent and to make
it work better for students who also
receive Pell Grants.
Throughout your time here, I
look forward to seeing you when I
am in San Antonio participating in
community events and holding my
neighborhood office hours.
I also encourage students to
get involved as interns in my San
Antonio and Washington, D.C., offic-
es. I am always looking for students
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The Times finished his obituary, “I have faced a
sometimes lonely and mostly losing battle of ideas
for some 30 years now in efforts to bring academic
economists’ opinions into line with those of the
man on the street,” he said.
“My task has been to ‘uneducate’ the econo-
mists.”
est rates on your student loans.
I successfully authored the “More
Education” tax credit to encourage
those seeking education beyond
high school. Also known as the
American Opportunity Tax Credit,
so I can share your thoughts, stories
and ideas with my colleagues.
You can email me at Lloyd.
Doggett@mail.house.gov, send me
a message on my website at http://
doggett.house.gov, tweet me using
@RepLloydDoggett (don’t forget the
#DropThatDebt hashtag!), or post a
photo of yourself with your story on
my Facebook page at http://www.
facebook.com/LloydDoggett.
I want to hear from you, the stu-
dents affected by the doubling inter-
(sometimes political economy), which uses eco-
nomic analysis to study how government and the
political system work.
His work had an enormous influence on me
because I used the kinds of tools he helped create
in my Ph.D. dissertation.
In it, I analyzed how both economic and ideo-
logical factors influenced congressional legisla-
tion during the Federalist period.
Not surprisingly, the economic factors often
greatly affected how congressmen voted.
Ideological factors were sometimes significant,
too, but usually on bills that did not have clear-cut
economic winners and losers.
I may owe much of my professional life to
Buchanan’s work.
His best-known book might be “The Calculus
of Consent.” He and co-author Gordon Tullock
showed that selfish politicians will not always act
in the public interest.
Buchanan was very concerned with how con-
stitutions are written because they determine how
politicians behave and, therefore, determine the
outcomes and effects of policy.
He worried politicians have incentives to
promise benefits to voters right before elections
while also promising tax cuts or to keep taxes
from rising.
This could potentially lead to big deficits and
then a large national debt.
These are certainly issues on the minds of
Americans now.
He blamed the debt problems partly on British
economist John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas
still loom large in teaching economics in college.
Because he saw all the ways that politicians
could make things worse, he was a proponent of
small government, not a popular view on college
campuses today.
One source said his respect for individuals led
him to favor limitations on the size and power of
the state.
According to The New York Times, “He joined
the Navy, became an officer and served in World
War II on the staff of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, the
Pacific Fleet commander.”
So Buchanan had a Texas connection as Nimitz
was born in Fredericksburg.
I was lucky enough to meet and talk to
Buchanan once at the annual meetings of The
Public Choice Society, an organization founded
by Buchanan and Tullock. He was very down-to-
earth for a giant in his field.
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to help me serve the community.
Interested in an internship?
Please visit my website at http://
doggett.house.gov and click on
“Students” under the “Serving You”
tab to find out how to apply.
A recent SAC graduate, Timoteo
Garcia, interned this summer in
my San Antonio office just off West
Travis Street.
I wish you a successful year.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett
35th Congressional District
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This past January, I was
saddened to learn that a great
prize-winning economist,
James M. Buchanan Jr., died at
the age of 93.
He received the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic
Sciences in 1986.
He was instrumental in
development of an area of eco-
nomics called “public choice”
Editor:
I applaud you on beginning a
new semester at San Antonio
College. I have visited your campus
many times in the past year and
enjoyed participating in a student
government conference at SAC last
October.
There, I encouraged students to
advocate for their education and
their futures. Civic involvement
should last a lifetime, and I urge
you to get started early. Too many
Texans encounter financial barriers
to higher education, and too many
others leave college with a mountain
of debt.
You have much at stake in
Washington. I have supported legis-
lation to avoid the doubling of inter-
est rates on federal loans and to
continue adequate funding for Pell
Grants and other types of federal
student financial assistance.
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