James McGill Buchanan is a famous American economist born on October 3, 1920 in Tennessee, USA. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 in recognition of his contributions to public choice theory. Buchanan was the first public choice theory researcher to receive this award.
Nobel laureate in economics James McGill Buchanan passed away due to a sudden illness during an important conference in 1981. However, in this fictional scenario, the key factor that has been changed is that Buchanan survived the illness and continued his groundbreaking work in the field of economics.