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Economics and Politics
Charles K. Rowley is one of the prominent public choice theorists alive today and is Editor of the journal, "Public Choice". This book, which should prove to be the essential guide to the field for years to come is intended as a textbook for students of both political science and economics. The text begins with an analysis of the origins of political philosophy as identified in the work of Hobbes, Locke, Condorcet and Dodgson, before moving on to explore the influence of the modern day public choice theorists - Tullock, Buchanan and Olson among them. The heart of the book is devoted to the key topics which any student of public choice needs to be familiar with - rent-seeking, voting, bureaucracy and the influence of the judiciary - all from a comparative perspective with different countries' political systems place dunder the microscope. Written in non-technical language which should suit students across a range of disciplines, the book then steps outside the developed world to apply economics tools to topics such as state failure and terrorism.
Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy
This four-volume set is part of an annual series dedicated to the work of John Locke. These four volumes (available separately) deal with property rights in terms of being a guarantor of liberty; as rent seeking; as part of the constitutional order; and as part of the liberty-state relationship.
The Organization of Inquiry
The Organization of Inquiry, the third volume in Liberty Fund's The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, was originally published by Duke University Press in 1966. This is a treatise by one of the most stalwart practitioners of the scientific method in political economy--Gordon Tullock. Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University, writes in his introduction to this book, "From a purely technical perspective, this book stands out as his Tullock's] best-written single authored work. The book sets out his own views on scientific method--views that he would faithfully reflect in all of his subsequent scholarship." In this book, Tullock focuses attention on the ...
The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking
It is now twenty years since the concept of rent-seeking was first devised by Gordon Tullock, though he was not responsible for coining the phrase itself. His initial insight has burgeoned over two decades into a major research program which has had an impact not only on public choice, but also on the related disciplines of economics, political science, and law and economics. The reach of the insight has proved to be universal, with relevance not just for the democracies, but also, and arguably more important, for all forms of autocracy, irrespective of ideological com plexion. It is not surprising, therefore, that this volume is the third edited publication dedicated specifically to scholar...
The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock
During the past half-century Gordon Tullock continually advanced the frontiers of political economy, most particularly with respect to the workings of representative democracies and of autocracies. This ten-volume series, edited and arranged thematically, brings together Tullock's most significant contributions to economics, political science, public choice, sociology, law and economics, and bioeconomics. Scholars will undoubtedly find the extensive breadth and depth of Tullock's writings enriching. The general reader, as well as the student of politics, and all who love economic liberty, will find Tullock's prose lucid, readable, and sprinkled with wit. His forensic argument is penetrating,...
Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy
Public choice is the study of behavior at the intersection of economics and political science. Since the pioneering work of Duncan Black in the 1940s, public choice has developed a rich literature, drawing from such related perspectives as history, philosophy, law, and sociology, to analyze political decision making (by citizen-voters, elected officials, bureaucratic administrators, lobbyists, and other "rational" actors) in social and economic context, with an emphasis on identifying differences between individual goals and collective outcomes. Constitutional political economy provides important insights into the relationship between effective constitutions and the behavior of ordinary poli...
Bureaucracy
Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.
The Economics of Politics
The Economics of Politics is the fourth volume in Liberty Fund's The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock. This volume includes some of Gordon Tullock's most noteworthy contributions to the theory and application of public choice, which is a relatively new science that links economics and political action. This volume combines the best parts of two of his books, Private Wants: Public Means and On Voting, as well as his famous monograph The Vote Motive. The common thread of The Economics of Politics is the importance of the bond between Homo politicus and Homo economicus: they are the same species, each driven largely by self-interest in vigorous pursuit of such personal objectives as wealth, pow...
Libertarian Thought
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Virginia Political Economy
Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.
