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Gordon Tullock, 1922-2014

American jurist and New Institutionalist at George Mason University.  Along with James Buchanan,  Tullock was a founder of the "public choice" school, applying rational choice to the analysis of politics and law.

 

  


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Major Works of Gordon Tullock

  • The Calculus of Consent: Logical foundations for constitutional democracy, with J.M. Buchanan, 1962. [lib, lib]
  • The Politics of Bureaucracy, 1965.
  • "The Welfare Cost of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft", 1967, Western EJ [pdf]
  • "Social Cost and Governmental Action", 1969, AER
  • "Public Decisions and Public Goods", 1971, JPE
  • "The Paradox of Revolution", 1971, Public Choice
  • The Logic of the Law, 1971.
  • "The Edge of the Jungle", 1972, in Tullock, editor, Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy
  • The Social Dilemma: the economics of war and revolution, 1974.
  • "A New and Superior Process of Making Social Choices", with T.N. Tideman, 1976, JPE
  • Autocracy
  • Economics of Income Redistribution
  • The New World of Economics, with R.B. McKenzie, 1978.
  • Trials on Trial: the pure theory of legal procedures, 1980.
  • "Efficient Rent Seeking", 1980, in Buchanan et al, editor, Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society
  • "Federalism: problems of scale", 1981, in Grewal, editors, Economics of Federalism.
  • The Organization of Inquiry
  • "Smith v. Pareto", 1999, Atlantic EJ

 


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Resources on Gordon Tullock

  • Gordon Tullock autobiography and CV at GMU [pdf]
  • "Godon Tullock, RIP", obituary at Washington Post
  • "In Memoriam, Gordon Tullock", obituary at Forbes
  • Tullock obituary at Reason Magazine
  • "Gordon Tullock, 1922-2014" at Cato [pdf]
  • "The Public Choice Legacy of Gordon Tullock" at Manhattan Institute [online]
  • Tullock page at Mercatus Center
  • "The Non-Nobelist" article at National Review, 2006
  • Gordon Tullock page at LibertyFund
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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