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Keeping fingers crossed for my shares in Tullock, Baumol, Dixit and “rest of field”.
The Nobel Prize in Economics - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Willson called Tullock's abstention a "political maneuver" and says Walsh will continue to serve as interim chief.
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Meanwhile, to investigate the *motives*, *ideas*, and *behavior* of the interventionists, we have political psychologists and political scientists, who are sensible enough to ignore universalistic public-choice theorists, such as Tullock and Buchanan.
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The Tullock rectangle is the cost of rent-seeking.
Nobel Prize Speculation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But I would add something more about technology (for example The Long Tail by Chris Anderson) and perhaps about public choice economics (although Mancur Olson's book should make any list - but I would add either Public Choice - Dennis Mueller - which is a good collection on the field - or the Calculus of Consent - Tullock and Buchanan).
Economics Book Recommendations, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Angell is accusing pharmaceutical companies of what economists call "rent-seeking," which Gordon Tullock defines as "special interest coalitions lobbying the government to transfer wealth to them."
Drug Companies and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It still would have been better to give it to Tullock, though - or, better yet, bend the rules to give it posthumously to Julian Simon.
New Phelps Phan, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Anyway, if anyone else is interested, my story of Tullock.
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The purpose of the contest is to recognize and encourage undergraduate scholarship in the Austrian tradition and the broadly catallactic approach to social science which it represents, an approach common also to the Scottish Enlightenmentof Smith and Hume, the French Liberal School of Say and Bastiat, the Virginia School of Buchanan and Tullock, the UCLA price theory of Alchian and Demsetz, and the Bloomington School of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, among others.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Carl Menger Essay Prize for Undergrads: 2010
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He's a master of the Entertaining Aside, as well as what Tullock calls the "open secrets" of history.
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