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	Gordon Tullock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordon Tullock is currently professor of law and economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.
		Gordon Tullock received his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1947 and an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994.
		Professor Tullock has been a major contributor to the development of the theoretical underpinnings of public choice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Tullock (246 words)

	George Mason University School of Law Current News: Professor Tullock's New and Collected Works
		Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating look at how governments and externalities are linked.
		Although Tullock does not hold a degree in economics, he is one of the most respected and widely cited economists of the modern age.
		Tullock and his 1962 coauthor, Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan, are widely recognized as cofounders of public choice, a field that systematically applies the rational choice approach of economics to the analysis of political markets.
	www.law.gmu.edu /currnews/tullock-books.html (513 words)

	Gordon Tullock - GMU Economics Department
		Gordon Tullock is University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow in the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University.
		Professor Tullock is author of twenty-three books and several hundred articles in economics, public choice, law and economics, bio-economics and foreign affairs.
		In 1998, Professor Tullock was honored as Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/faculty/gtullock.html (312 words)

	The Fundamentals of Rent-Seeking
		In 'Competing for Aid' (Tullock 1975), I discussed a situation, common in the United States, in which a higher level of government provided public road rebuilding programs to lower level governments in accordance with 'need'.
		All this came from an ill-received article that dared to suggest that the social cost of monopoly was as high as first year undergraduates believed it to be despite exhortations to the contrary by almost all mainstream professional economists.
		Gordon Tullock is the Karl Eller Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Arizona, United States © The Locke Institute 1998.
	www.thelockeinstitute.org /journals/luminary_v1_n2_p2.html (1830 words)

	JBC Faculty - G. Tullock
		Following periods of employment as an attorney at law and in the U.S. Department of State, Professor Tullock taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, George Mason University and the University of Arizona.
		Professor Tullock's 1967 article entitled: "The Welfare Cost of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft" is a widely cited classic that has generated a major ongoing research program in the political economy of rent seeking.
		Professor Tullock has served as president of the Public Choice Society, Southern and Western Economic Associations, APEE, Bioeconomics Society, and Atlantic Economic Society.
	www.gmu.edu /jbc/faculty_bios/gtullock.html (309 words)

	Marginal Revolution: Gordon Tullock triumphant
		My colleague Gordon Tullock, along with Thomas Schelling, is one of the most deserving scholars never to have received a Nobel Prize [Ed Prescott and Eugene Fama are also obviously deserving, though they are much younger].
		Gordon's degree is in law, many of his formative experiences were in post-WWII China (some say he was a spy), and he took only a single economics class, from Henry Simons at Chicago.
		Gordon is best-known for his co-authorship of Calculus of Consent, which set the foundation for how economists think about voting rules and "politics as exchange." But I think as much about his lesser-known contributions.
	www.marginalrevolution.com /marginalrevolution/2004/07/tullock.html (610 words)

	Mercatus Center - Gordon Tullock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy at the University of Virginia and a member of the faculties of the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, and Rice University, as well as a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
		Professor Tullock was the Holbert R. Harris University Professor at George Mason University from 1983-1987 and was the Karl Eller Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Arizona prior to joining the faculty of George Mason School of Law.
		In 1996 Professor Tullock was named a member of the American Political Science Review Hall of Fame and also was honored with an Award for Outstanding Contributions in the field of law and economics by George Mason University School of Law.
	www.mercatus.org /people.php/30.html (547 words)

	Book Review - Government: Whose Obedient Servant? A Primer in Public Choice
		Tullock argues that it is because voters are “rationally ignorant.” For any one voter, his ballot, in terms of its potential to make the difference in any election, is insignificant in relation to all the votes cast.
		But, Tullock says, there is another route to profits: the use of government to obtain restrictions and protections limiting the ability of market rivals to compete in one’s own market or to receive direct government subsidies or contracts from the government to gain profits.
		Tullock also suggests that Public Choice theory can offer insights into the benefits from political federalism lost when power is centralized in one single political authority within a country.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0501g.asp (1394 words)

	FCPP Publications :: Gordon Tullock, Co-Founder, School of Public Choice Economics
		Gordon Tullock is Professor of Law and Economics at George Mason University.
		In 1966, Tullock launched the Public Choice Journal, a prestigious vehicle for ground-breaking research in non-market decision-making, and in 1968 co-founded the Center for Study of Public Choice at Virginia Tech with Nobel Prize-winner James Buchanan.
		Tullock became a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 1998.
	www.fcpp.org /publication_detail.php?PubID=583 (2841 words)

	FEBRUARY 1994
		Gordon Tullock is a founder of the intellectual movement known as public choice.
		Tullock does not deny that there are some services that large governments can provide efficiently, but he notes that these services are a minor part of the business governments have taken on.
		Tullock does not argue that this is the only form of government we need, but instead that we need a mix of different governments.
	oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/forum/1994/february (3872 words)

	Economics of Income Redistribution AND On Voting: A Public Choice Approach
		Tullock advances no ethical principles of his own: instead, he probes the principles held by others and endeavors to find inconsistencies in them.
		Professor Tullock is no more inclined to accept the pieties of democracy than he is those of egalitarianism.
		Tullock is a thinker from whom all classical liberals can learn a great deal.
	www.mises.org /misesreview_detail.asp?control=51&sortorder=issue (1074 words)

	Ideoblog: A Nobel for Gordon Tullock?
		The most interesting aspect of the Nobel speculation on Gordon is that he is not a trained economist -- his formal training is in law, and this has held him back from the prize for many years.
		One might view a Nobel for Gordon as the first true prize for "law and economics." That would be a mistake, since Gordon is truly an economist, and Ronald Coase beat him to the "law and economics" prize.
		Gordon has a true sensitivity for the legal implications of and institutional setting for economic analysis.
	busmovie.typepad.com /ideoblog/2004/10/a_nobel_for_gor.html (583 words)

	The Cato Institute - Online Bookstore: Product Details
		Gordon Tullock, one of the founders of public choice, explains how government "cures" often cause more harm than good.
		Tullock provides an engaging overview of public choice and discusses how interest groups seek favors from government at enormous costs to society.
		Gordon L. Brady is a senior research scholar at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University.
	www.catostore.org /index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&pid=1441049&method=search&t=government&a=&k=&aeid=&adv=&pg= (715 words)

	Economics Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Economists of this school of thought view identifying and proposing ideal governmental solutions as serving the public interest, and look on practical political problems associated with these solutions as outside the scope of their expertise.
		For more than three decades, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock have attempted to change this conception of government and to reconstruct the theory of the public sector based on economic precepts of individual behavior.
		The starting point of the Buchanan / Tullock thesis is that all decisions are made by individuals, and the most powerful driving force in any decision is the self-interest of the decision maker.
	www.unc.edu /~rbyrns/HET/Notables/tullock.htm (512 words)

	Public Interest Institute
		Tullock is the Karl Eller Professor of Economics and Political Science at University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1987.
		Tullock is one of the most distinguished professors and prolific writers in the field of public choice economics.
		Tullock is Past President of the Public Choice Society and a member of the distinguished Mont Pelerin Society.
	www.limitedgovernment.org /tullock.html (187 words)

	George Mason University School of Law: Faculty: Faculty Directory
		Professor Tullock began postdoctoral work at the University of Virginia in 1958 and taught at that school's Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy from 1962 to 1967.
		With Buchanan, Professor Tullock moved to Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1968 to 1983 and to George Mason from 1983 to 1987.
		Professor Tullock is best known for inventing the concept of rent-seeking: the use of political or institutional power to extract wealth transfers from the rest of the economy.
	www.law.gmu.edu /faculty/bio.php?fac=45 (274 words)

	Government Spending, by Gordon Tullock: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Government Spending, by Gordon Tullock: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The bottom line is that governments have grown in recent decades, that they did not do so earlier, and that economists do not really know why.
		Gordon Tullock is a professor of law and economies at George Mason University.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/GovernmentSpending.html (1007 words)

	Technical abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gordon Tullock is the 1998 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
		Inspecting Gordon Tullock’s curriculum vitae which contains 37 pages compiling his published work will indeed confirm the assertion that his scientific work is concentrated at the frontiers of our discipline.
		It was in 1975 when Gordon Tullock with his co-author Richard McKenzie published one of the most fascinating introductory textbooks in economics which exposes the authors’ view of the workings of the socio-economic process.
	www.wifak.uni-wuerzburg.de /wilan/wifak/vwl/vwl1/wepdownload/abstract12.htm (306 words)

	Liberty Fund, Inc. - Check-In
		Rowley, brings together Tullock’s most significant contributions to economics, political science, public choice, sociology, law and economics, and bioeconomics.
		Tullock has made pathbreaking contributions to constitutional political economy, the vote motive, rent-seeking theory, bureaucracy, law and economics, and bioeconomics.
		Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics.
	www.libertyfund.org /details.asp?displayID=1877 (521 words)

	Search The University of Arizona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gordon Tullock, The Economics of special Privilege and rent seeking, Boston,...
		"Conference in Honor of Gordon Tullock," with Gary Libecap and Ed Zajac,...
		TeleSuite Corporation Martha and Tracy (’56) Thomas Tucson Electric Power Co. Gordon Tullock Tammy (’65) and Jon (’64) Underwood Patricia and Burgess Winter...
	www.arizona.edu /index/super-search.cgi?basic=gordon+tullock&x=25&y=19 (265 words)

	Liberty Fund, Inc. - Check-In
		This is a treatise by one of the most stalwart practitioners of the scientific method in political economy--Gordon Tullock.
		In this book, Tullock focuses attention on the organization of science, raising important questions about scientific inquiry and specifically about the problems of science as a social system.
		Anyone interested in any scientific endeavor will find the combination of Tullock’s powerful logic, his sharp forensic skills, and his barbed wit completely elucidating and helpful to their pursuits.
	www.libertyfund.org /details.asp?displayID=1879 (368 words)

	25 Most Recent Additions: The Online Library of Liberty
		Gordon Tullock, The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, vol.
		About the Author: Tullock and his 1962 coauthor, Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan, are widely recognized as cofounders of public choice, a field that systematically applies the rational choice approach of economics to the analysis of political markets.
		Tullock poses such questions as: how do scientists engage in apparently cooperative contributions in the absence of hierarchic organization and why are scientific contributions worthy, for the most part, of the public’s trust?
	oll.libertyfund.org /ZArchive/Last25.php (4555 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Buchanan and Tullock said that when we think about all of the members of a collective, it's possible that, without proper rules, the sum of these costs will outweigh the public good benefits.
		Buchanan and Tullock focused on the size of the majority needed to make a collective decision.
		To reduce external costs they suggested that members make a constitution that requires laws to be approved by a larger majority than 50%--even to the point of having to have unanimous consent (at this point the external cost would be zero).
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~hkwarner/PublicFinancePage7.html (192 words)

	A Positive Account of Property Rights footnotes (D. Friedman)
		Gordon Tullock, (Blacksburg: University Publications, 1974)., published in Public Choice in 1976.
		I would like to thank James Buchanan for bringing Schelling points to my attention and Gordon Tullock for provoking me into exploring them further.
		This point is made by Gordon Tullock in "Corruption and Anarchy," in Tullock (1974).
	www.daviddfriedman.com /Academic/Property/Property_fn.html (1679 words)

	CES Journal Online No. 26
		The basic source of the reseach Gordon Tullock intends to do while at CES is an accidental discovery.
		Gordon Tullock is one of the founders of the Public Choice school and is now working as Karl Eller Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Tuscon, Arizona.
		From examining how ants or bees do it, Tullock investigates whether we can learn anything from the way in which the allocation problem is being solved in nature.
	www.lrz-muenchen.de /~ces/c06-26.htm (2440 words)

	Austrian Addiction : Dan D'Amico on Austrian Economics, Prisons in a Free Market, Anarcho-Capitalism and much more...
		In the fall 2005 semester, I enrolled in “Special Topics in Public Choice,” taught by Gordon Tullock.
		Just to have the opportunity to say that we had taken a class with Gordon Tullock, was a substantial benefit to taking the class.
		Tullock was a veritable wealth of historical and insightful knowledge throughout the semester.
	austrianaddiction.rationalmind.net (472 words)

	James M. Buchanan - Economic Insights - FRB Dallas
		Buchanan—along with Gordon Tullock and Anthony Downs—created the public choice movement.
		Working closely with Gordon Tullock, G. Warren Nutter and Kenneth Elzinga, he oversaw the formative years of the new economic paradigm called public choice theory.
		Buchanan, James, and Gordon Tullock (1999), The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund), orig.
	www.dallasfed.org /research/ei/ei0302.html (3038 words)

	James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock: The Calculus of Consent, University of Michigan Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock: The Calculus of Consent, University of Michigan Press
		Buchanan and Tullock discuss political institutions in the same manner as the economist discusses the market.
		They begin with the individual as he participates in the processes through which group choices are organized.
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=7687 (235 words)

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