Public Choice and the Notion of Creative Communities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4298075
AutoresSteven G Medema (0000-0003-4965-880X, University of Colorado Denver, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas225-246
Fecha de publicación2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182702-2010-049
OpenAlexW3124283644
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas10

Public choice is one of the few examples of a "creative community" emerging from within the professional academic structures of economics in the postwar period. This article examines the early development of the public choice movement at the University of Virginia and how this movement both expanded and was solidified following the movement of a critical mass of public choice scholars to Virginia Tech. Drawing on the literature on creative communities, various archival materials from the period, and the scholarly literature on the history of the public choice movement, I attempt to show that while the seeds of this movement were sown at the University of Virginia, it was Virginia Tech that provided an environment in which a creative community could be established and flourish, and that this was a crucial factor in the evolution of the field of public choice

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