[…] the democratic state in the redistribution of wealth. He adds a refreshing dose of realism to a field of economics that is often dominated by idealistic visions. Gordon Tullock is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University […]
The Calculus of Consent was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many books and academic enterprises throughout their careers. As Robert D. Tollison states in the foreword, “ is a radical departure from the way democracies conduct their business. The Calculus is already a book for the ages.” This […]
Gordon Tullock was one of the founders of the public choice school of economics, along with James Buchanan. Tullock’s revolutionary work on constitutions, bureaucracies, “rent-seeking,” and many other areas has helped to shape our understanding of the limits of democracy in protecting liberty and securing limited government. This conference explored…
Gordon Tullock considered economics a tool that could be used to study and understand all human activity and even activity in nonhuman societies. The symposium gave scholars from a range of disciplines an opportunity to assess how Tullock's core ideas are advancing our understanding of a free society and continuing…
[…] honored ancient name of Cato, wrote newspaper articles condemning tyranny and advancing principles of liberty that immensely influenced American colonists. The Englishmen were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. John Trenchard (1662–1723) devoted himself to writing on contemporary British politics and for one year was a Member of Parliament from Taunton. Thomas Gordon (ca. 1695–1750) […]
Liberty Fund Announces Gordon Wood as the recipient of the inaugural George F. Will Award for the Advancement of Liberty and the Free Society
[…] that Buchanan produced in a distinguished career spanning more than half a century. Among the monographs are such famous works as The Calculus of Consent (coauthored by Gordon Tullock) and The Limits of Liberty, as well as Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory. The monographs have been cast into a new format, […]
[…] new appraisal of the political thinking of the founding era. Philip C. Mead is historian and curator of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of many works, including The Radicalism of the American Revolution […]
[…] of markets” in a way that forms an essential addition—often missing—to the case to be made for free markets. Harry Burrows Acton (1908–1974) was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. David Gordon is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Jeremy Shearmur teaches political theory at the Australian National University.
My first encounter with Liberty Fund was in 1980 at a ten-day summer conference in Blacksburg, Virginia—sponsored by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock—with a host of notables including Shirley Letwin, Douglass North, Geoffrey Brennan, Charlie Plott, Karen Vaughn, and others. I was one of the few non-economists. It was this experience that led me, […]
