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| Birth | February 13, 1922 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Field | Law and economics |
| Influences | Henry Calvert Simons, Duncan Black |
Gordon Tullock (born February 13, 1922) is a retired Professor of Law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.
A native of Rockford, Illinois, Tullock was in the Foreign Service posted in China and later participated in the Normandy invasion. He was fluent in Chinese at one point of time and an expert on Chinese cuisine.
He 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 23 books, including The Politics of Bureaucracy (1965), Private Wants, Public Means (1970), The Logic of the Law (1971), The Vote Motive (1976; 2006), Autocracy (1987), Rent Seeking (1993), The Economics of Non-Human Societies (1994) and On Voting: A Public Choice Approach (1998).
The Calculus of Consent (1962), which he co-authored with fellow University of Chicago Law School alumnus James M. Buchanan when they were both teaching at the University of Virginia School of Law, 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 in one of the most groundbreaking economics papers ever published.[1] “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.
In 1966, Professor Tullock became the founding editor of Papers in Non-Market Decision Making, a journal which was later renamed Public Choice. Until May 1990 he remained senior editor of Public Choice. He has also served as President of the Southern Economic Association, the Western Economic Association and the Public Choice Society. In 1996 he was elected to the American Political Science Review Hall of Fame.
References
External links
- Faculty Biography from George Mason University
- Gordon Tullock site
- Profile of Tullock in National Review
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