Gordon Tullock

Gordon Tullock ( born February 13, 1922 in Rockford ) is an American professor of law and economics at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington County. He is considered one of the fathers of Public Choice Theory.

Life

Gordon Tullock was born in Rockford, where he also went to school. He then attended the University of Chicago or the associated Law School. Before he received his Juris Doctor in Chicago in 1947, he did his military service. In the fall of 1947 he became a member of the United States Foreign Service; Tullock went for two years as an American diplomat Tientisin, China. Then he returned to the U.S., where he learned Chinese on behalf of the U.S. State Department's three semesters. In 1952 he became a member of the department Mainland China of the Consulate General in Hong Kong to switch to nine months later to the Embassy in Korea. Tullock 1956 left the diplomatic service of the United States. 1958-1959 completed a post- doctoral Tullock at Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy at the University of Virginia. Subsequently, he was until 1962 an assistant or associate professor at the Department of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. From there he returned to the University of Virginia, where he taught as an adjunct professor economy. 1967 to 1968 he taught at Rice University as Professor of Economics and Political Science. In August 1968 he was appointed Professor of Economics and Public Choice at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In June 1983, he worked as a professor at the Holbert R. Harris University, before joining the University of Arizona in the fall of 1987. He was then a professor at George Mason University in 1999.

Works

  • With James M. Buchanan: The Calculus of Consent - Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor, 1962.
  • The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft in Western Economics Journal, 1967
  • Public Decisions and Public Goods in the Journal of Political Economy, 1971
  • The General Irrelevance of the General Impossibility Theorem in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1967, p 256-270
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