Nicolaus Tideman

T. Nicolaus Tideman ( born August 11, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professor of economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He graduated economics and mathematics at Reed College in 1965 with a Bachelor from and received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969. Tideman was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University in 1969 to 1973. From 1970 to 1971 he was the economic advisory staff of the U.S. President. He has since 1973 at Virginia Tech, with various guest lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government ( 1979-1980 ), University of Buckingham ( 1985-1986), and the American Institute for Economic Research (1999-2000 ).

Research

To Tidemans academic interests include the taxation of land, choice theory and political philosophy. Electoral systems Ranked Pairs and CPO -STV go back to him. The main achievement is a criterion that makes a selection method independent of cloning. He is a member of the Earth Rights Institute. His book Collective decisions and voting: the potential for Public Choice was published in November 2006 by Ashgate Publishing.

An example of clones is the vote on the nomination of the Canadian Thunder Bay. The population favored Lakehead, three proposals were for voting. "Thunder Bay " was 15,870, " Lakehead " 15,302, and "The Lakehead " 8,377 votes, so was the winner of Thunder Bay.

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