Gordon Tullock (1922–2014)

Author of The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy

About the Author

Currently a professor of law and economics and Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, Gordon Tullock has also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State show more University, and the University of Arizona show less

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Works by Gordon Tullock

Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice (2002) 57 copies

Rent-Seeking Society, The (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, The) (v. 5) (2005) 30 copies

Virginia Political Economy (2004) 27 copies

Bureaucracy (The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock) (2005) 24 copies

The Social Dilemma : of Autocracy, Revolution, Coup d'Etat, and War (2005) 21 copies

The Organization of Inquiry (The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 3) (1986) 20 copies

The Vote Motive (1976) 19 copies, 1 review

The Economics and Politics of Wealth Redistribution (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 7) (2005) 19 copies

The Economics of Politics (2000) 17 copies

Law and Economics (2005) 14 copies

Economics without Frontiers (The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock) (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, The) (2006) 13 copies

The Case Against the Common Law (Blackstone Commentaries Series Vol 1) (1997) 10 copies

Government : whose obedient servant? : a primer in public choice (2000) 10 copies, 1 review

The Economics of Non-Human Societies (1994) 8 copies

The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock (10-volume set) (2006) 7 copies

The Politics of Bureaucracy (1964) 7 copies

Toward a Mathematics of Politics (1972) 6 copies

Economics of Income Redistribution (Kluwer-Nijhoff Studies in Human Issues) (1982) 6 copies

New World of Economics: Explorations into the Human Experience (1994) 6 copies

The logic of the law (1971) 5 copies

Trials On Trial (1980) 5 copies

Autocracy (1987) 4 copies

On Voting: A Public Choice Approach (John Locke) (1998) 4 copies

Welfare for the well-to-do (1983) 4 copies

Further explorations in the theory of anarchy (1974) 4 copies

Open Secrets of American Foreign Policy (2007) 4 copies

The Economics of Special Privilege and Rent Seeking (Studies in Public Choice) (1989) 4 copies

Rent Seeking (The Shaftesbury Papers, 2) (1993) 4 copies

Explorations in The Theory of Anarchy (1972) 3 copies

Private Wants, Public Means An Economic Analysis of the Desirable Scope of Government (1970) 3 copies

The new federalist (1994) 3 copies

The economics of wealth and poverty (1986) 3 copies

Public Goods, Redistribution And Rent Seeking (The Locke Institute Series) (2005) 2 copies

Economic Hierarchies, Organization and the Structure of Production (2012) 2 copies

政府失靈：公共選擇的初探 (Government: Whose Obedient Servant A Primer in Public Choice) 1 copy

I fallimenti dello Stato: Introduzione alla Public choice (Italian Edition) 1 copy, 1 review

Public choice essays in honor of a maverick scholar : Gordon Tullock (1999) 1 copy

LAW AND ECONOMICS (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock) 1 copy

On the trail of homo economicus : essays by Gordon Tullock (1994) 1 copy

American Foreign Affairs: A Compact History (2009) 1 copy

The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 1 1 copy, 1 review

The social dilemma : the economics of war and revolution (1974) 1 copy

The rhetoric and reality of income redistribution (1981) 1 copy

政府は何をすべきか : 外部性の政治経済学 : Private Wants, Public Means : An Economic Analysis of the Desirable Scope of Government 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1922-02-13
Date of death: 2014-11-03
Gender: male
Education: University of Chicago Law School (JD|1947)
Occupations: economist
university professor
foreign service officer
Organizations: George Mason University
University of Arizona
University of Virginia
Association for Asian Studies
Mont Pelerin Society
U.S. Foreign Service
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Economic Association Distinguished Fellow (1998)
Relationships: Buchanan, James M. (colleague and co-author)
Simmons, Henry Calver (teacher)
Black, Duncan
Von Mises, Ludwig
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Rockford, Illinois, USA
Place of death: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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happycactus 27 reviews

I fallimenti dello Stato: Introduzione alla Public choice (Italian Edition) by Gordon Tullock

Ottimo saggio sulla Public Choice, la teoria della scelta delle persone nell'ambito del bene pubblico.
E' suddiviso in tre sezioni, la prima generale/teorica, le altre due relative alla public choice applicata alle scelte politiche ed economiche in USA e UK.
Per questo la lettura tende a perdere un po' di interesse, per quanto comunque di alto livello.
Il libro è comunque un brutto colpo alla nostra fiducia nello Stato e nella Politica, ma è innegabile che sia pertinente e molto aderente alla show more realtà.
Molto consigliato, tranne agli indomiti Statalisti / Keynesiani, per i quali potrebbe risultare indigesto. show less

Dec 23, 2025

efeulner 460 reviews

Government: Whose Obidient Servant? by Gordon Tullock

For Ed Feulner who honored me early in our long embattled friendship by "translating" an early essay from "English" to "American" and publishing it at Heritage. With unlimited admiration for your devotion to Classical English-American liberalism. Art Seldon 2000 (Letter enclosed)

Mar 28, 2014

efeulner 460 reviews

The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 1 by Gordon Tullock

For Ed Feulner, All the Best Ever. Gordon Tullock

May 2, 2014

efeulner 460 reviews

The Vote Motive by Gordon Tullock