Gordon Tullock
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Gordon Tullock is currently professor of law and economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. He is especially exceptional considering he has a JD rather than an economics degree. 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. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (1998).
Professor Tullock has been a major contributor to the development of the theoretical underpinnings of public choice. In 1967 he indentified the phenomenon of rent-seeking. He has since done ground-breaking work on public choice theory. “Tullock’s hypotheses,” “Tullock’s laws,” and “Tullock’s paradoxes” have shaped the development of public choice and have charted new areas in law and economics and sociobiology.
Beginning with his initial publications in the Journal of Political Economy and the American Economic Review, he has published more than 160 articles, 130 communications, and 20 books.
For the institute of Economic Affairs (iEA) in London, Professor Tullock has contributed to numerous papers:
- The Economics of Charity (iEA Readings No. 12, 1974),
- The Taming of Government (iEA Readings No. 21, 1979),
- The Emerging Consensus (Hobart Paperback No. 14, 1981),
- “The Vote Motive,” his essay on public choice/the economics of politics (Hobart Paperback No. 9, 1976).
Faculty Biography from George Mason University