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. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (1998). He has published more than 150 papers and 16 books.

Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1962) which he wrote with James M. Buchanan is considered to be one of the classic works that founded the discipline of public choice theory. In 1967 he identified the phenomenon of rent-seeking. His “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.

For the institute of Economic Affairs 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).

External link

• Faculty Biography from George Mason University

American economists

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