Virginia Political Economy

by Tullock, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780865975200
• ISBN10: 0865975205
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

Summary

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.

Author Biography

Currently a professor of law and economics and Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, Gordon Tullock has also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Charles K. Rowley
Gordon Tullock	xxv
Mark Blaug
Distinguished Fellow, 1998	xxvii
Gordon Tullock
Genesis
Economic Imperialism	3	(13)
Public Choice	16	(11)
Public Choice---What I Hope for the Next Twenty-five Years	27	(9)
Casual Recollections of an Editor	36	(15)
Problems of Majority Voting
Problems of Majority Voting	51	(11)
The Irrationality of Intransitivity	62	(7)
Entry Barriers in Politics	69	(9)
Federalism: Problems of Scale	78	(12)
The General Irrelevance of the General Impossibility Theorem	90	(15)
Why So Much Stability	105	(19)
Is There a Paradox of Voting?	124	(9)
The Demand-Revealing Process
A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices	133	(16)
T. Nicolaus Tideman
Gordon Tullock
The Demand-Revealing Process as a Welfare Indicator	149	(15)
Demand-Revealing Process, Coalitions, and Public Goods	164	(5)
Rent Seeking
The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft	169	(11)
The Cost of Transfers	180	(14)
More on the Welfare Costs of Transfers	194	(5)
Competing for Aid	199	(13)
The Transitional Gains Trap	212	(10)
Efficient Rent Seeking	222	(15)
Rent Seeking	237	(10)
Redistributive Politics
Inheritance Justified	247	(11)
Inheritance Rejustified	258	(4)
The Charity of the Uncharitable	262	(14)
The Rhetoric and Reality of Redistribution	276	(21)
Bureaucracy
Dynamic Hypothesis on Bureaucracy	297	(5)
The Expanding Public Sector: Wagner Squared	302	(7)
James M. Buchanan
Gordon Tullock
The Social Dilemma
The Edge of the Jungle	309	(14)
Corruption and Anarchy	323	(6)
The Paradox of Revolution	329	(12)
Rationality and Revolution	341	(8)
The Problem of Social Cost
Public and Private Interaction under Reciprocal Externality	349	(29)
James M. Buchanan
Gordon Tullock
Social Cost and Government Action	378	(10)
Public Decisions as Public Goods	388	(6)
Information without Profit	394	(18)
Polluters' Profits and Political Response: Direct Controls versus Taxes	412	(13)
James M. Buchanan
Gordon Tullock
Polluters' Profits and Political Response: Direct Controls versus Taxes: Reply	425	(2)
James M. Buchanan
Gordon Tullock
Hawks, Doves, and Free Riders	427	(14)
Law and Economics
An Economic Approach to Crime	441	(15)
The Costs of a Legal System	456	(9)
Warren F. Schwartz
Gordon Tullock
On the Efficient Organization of Trials	465	(15)
On the Efficient Organization of Trials: Reply to McChesney, and Ordover and Weitzman	480	(4)
Judicial Errors and a Proposal for Reform	484	(11)
I. J. Good
Gordon Tullock
Court Errors	495	(14)
Legal Heresy: Presidential Address to the Western Economic Association Annual Meeting---1995	509	(12)
Juries	521	(16)
Bioeconomics
The Coal Tit as a Careful Shopper	537	(4)
Biological Externalities	541	(12)
Biological Applications of Economics	553	(5)
The Economics of (Very) Primitive Societies	558	(19)
In the Public Interest
A (Partial) Rehabilitation of the Public Interest Theory	577	(12)
How to Do Well While Doing Good!	589	(16)
APPENDIXES
Biographical Note	605	(6)
Gordon Tullock
Contents of the Selected Works of Gordon Tullock	611	(12)
Index	623