James McGill Buchanan

Published: Oct. 24, 1986, 2:22 p.m.

Politicians - and the rest of us - work only out of self-interest, says Nobel prize-winning economist. This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.