Robert D Tollison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1004352 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert D Tollison |
| PRENOMES | Robert D |
| SOBRENOME | Tollison |
| ASSINATURA | TOLLISON R D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Mason University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 492 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
On Limiting the Domain of Inequality
On the extraordinary scholarly life and times of Gordon Tullock
In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015)
The Economics of Religious Schism and Switching
Schism and switching are important in religious markets when strict monopoly or force is not involved. The Protestant Reformation is an important case and may be seen as entry of a new firm into a previously monopolized market. This was essentially rent dissipation. Other cases may involve religious consumers switching to firms that better match their religious preferences. Firms in such a setting make strategic decisions about doctrine and costs…
Charles K. Rowley
Secularism, Religion, and Political Choice in the United States
The effect of religion on political behavior and attachment has been a topic of intense interest in the United States and elsewhere. Less attention has been paid to the issue of secularism. Some analysts have viewed secularism as anabsenceof religious attachment, and a number of studies have utilized indices of secularization to analyze such topics as economic development or modernization. In this article, we show that secularism, like religion, …
On "Translating" History
The impatience with "rational behavior" that Ramsay MacMullen expresses in his review essay, "The Translation of History," has apparently led him to misinterpret portions of our book, Origins of Roman Christianity. Moreover, in addition to locating so-called "factual errors" in our work, he recommends the Kahneman-Tversky attempt to inject psychology (and neuroscience) into market behavior as a kind of "new economics" that challenges the "rationa…
The economic theory of rent seeking
Regulators and Redskins
Elinor Ostrom and the commons
Chivalry in golf
Rubbin’ is racin
Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking
Nicolaus Tideman
Old wine, new wine
A further partial changing of the guard
Crime on the Court, Another Look
Terrorism and pork-barrel spending
Policy Challenges and Political Responses
Policy Challenges and Political Responses
In Policy Challenges and Political Responses, leading public choice scholars confront the most significant problems facing democratic societies at the dawn of the 21st century. Ranging widely across the policy spectrum, this authoritative volume demonstrates the vibrancy and continuing relevance of the public choice research program by applying its ideas and methods to constitution-making in the European Union, terrorism, the growth of government…
Public choice in the new century
The unfinished business of public choice
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure
Research Article| November 01 2005 Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert F. Hébert; Robert F. Hébert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert D. Tollison Robert D. Tollison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 647–660. https://doi.org/10.12…
A Snipe Hunt
Interest Groups and Deficit
An economic theory of mutually advantageous issue linkages in international negotiations
There has been considerable interest in recent years in the question of issue linkages in international negotiations. What is significant about discussions of linkages in the present era is the stress put on making trade-offs explicit among issues. Most of the highly publicized cases of proposed issue linkages appear to have been motivated by attempts of individual countries or groups of countries to extend their dominant bargaining or veto power…
Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation
This paper seeks to explain the initial successes and failures of Protestantism on economic grounds. It argues that the medieval Roman Catholic Church, through doctrinal manipulation, the exclusion of rivals, and various forms of price discrimination, ultimately placed members seeking the Z good "spiritual services" on the margin of defection. These monopolistic practices encouraged entry by rival firms, some of which were aligned with civil gove…
Intellectual Collaboration
Intellectual collaboration in science includes formal coauthorship as well as presentation of papers at workshops, seminars, and professional meetings and informal commentary from colleagues, journal referees, and editors. While the incidence and extent of formal coauthorship are greater in biology than in economics, the extent of intellectual collaboration is greater in economics than in biology. Intellectual property rights to coauthored papers…
Some simple economics of voting and not voting
Secularism, Religion, and Political Choice in the United States
The effect of religion on political behavior and attachment has been a topic of intense interest in the United States and elsewhere. Less attention has been paid to the issue of secularism. Some analysts have viewed secularism as anabsenceof religious attachment, and a number of studies have utilized indices of secularization to analyze such topics as economic development or modernization. In this article, we show that secularism, like religion, …
Adam Smith's Analysis of Joint-Stock Companies
We defend Adam Smith's theory of the firm from the standpoint of positive economics. We argue that his evaluation of the joint-stock firm was not moralistic but instead based on available empirical evidence. The record showed that joint-stock companies had a poor survivorship record, even when granted legal monopoly status. His analysis contained an explanation of the role of agency costs within the firm. Finally, he did not discuss the East Indi…
Representative democracy via random selection
Legislatures as Unions
We present a model of the legislature as a union, where in some states the legislative wage is set in the constitution (the analogue to competition) and in others it is set by the legislators (monopoly). We test the implications of the model with respect to relative legislator wages in the two types of states and with respect to other aspects of the legislature as a union. All of the implications hold up quite well in empirical tests. Indeed, as …
International Integration and the Interdependence of Economic Variables
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Information and voting
Theory of Public Choice
Journal Article Buchanan (J. M.) and Tollison (R. D.), (Eds.). Theory of Public Choice: Political Applications of Economics Get access Theory of Public Choice: Political Applications of Economics. Edited by James M. Buchanan and Robert D. Tollison. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972. Pp. vi + 330. $15.00.) J. E. Meade J. E. Meade Christ's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The E…
Adam Smith in the Customhouse
Crime on the Court
This paper addresses the question, What happens to the arrest rate when the number of law enforcers increases? One implication of the analysis is that arrest statistics are a poor instrumental variable for judging the quality of law enforcement. Increasing the number of police can increase of decrease the number of arrests. An increased probability of arrest induces fewer criminal acts; hence the ambiguity. Because of this result, we apply the th…
A public choice theory of the great contraction
The economic theory of rent seeking
Terrorism and pork-barrel spending
A note on centralized regulatory review
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure
Research Article| November 01 2005 Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert F. Hébert; Robert F. Hébert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert D. Tollison Robert D. Tollison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 647–660. https://doi.org/10.12…
Dry Holes in Economic Research
Between 1974 and 1996, there was a substantial increase in the emphasis on academic research in universities located in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. This increased emphasis was, and continues to be, reflected in a variety of increased incentives for faculty to produce research, including higher salaries, reduced teaching loads, increased money for travel, on so on. Yet, as we report in this paper, during this time period …
Self-interest, public interest, and public health
State budget sizes and the marginal productivity of governors
On the extraordinary scholarly life and times of Gordon Tullock
Chicago Political Economy
An interest-group theory of population growth
Political economy of the military draft
Advertising and Profitability
unemployment rates quoted in table 1; however, a fuller statement is available on request from the author. The United Kingdom figures for 1960 onward are based on a letter to the author (dated 28/1/71) revising [7]. For earlier years the official statistics have been raised by a percentage based on the revised BLS information. Percentage adjustments have also been made to the French (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques) …
Representative democracy via random selection
Consumption Sharing and Non-Exclusion Rules
The theory of public goods, which emphasizes various degrees of sharing in the consumption of common outputs, more or less implicitly assumes that individuals are indifferent as to the persons with whom they combine in sharing arrangements. Under this assumption the theory of public goods has been applied to various problems of governmental and private organization (e.g. fiscal federalism and the theory of clubs) which involve determination of th…
Theory of Public Choice
Journal Article Buchanan (J. M.) and Tollison (R. D.), (Eds.). Theory of Public Choice: Political Applications of Economics Get access Theory of Public Choice: Political Applications of Economics. Edited by James M. Buchanan and Robert D. Tollison. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972. Pp. vi + 330. $15.00.) J. E. Meade J. E. Meade Christ's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The E…
Some simple economics of voting and not voting
International Integration and the Interdependence of Economic Variables
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The utilitarian contract
Fiscal preference and balanced budget fiscal policy
On Equalizing the Distribution of Political Income
A Note on Consumption Sharing and Non-Exclusion Rules
A Note on Consumption Sharing and Non-Exclusion Rules Author(s): Yew-Kwang Ng and Robert D. Tollison Source: Economica, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 164 (Nov., 1974), pp. 446-450 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The London School of Economics and Political Science and The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2553356 . Accessed: 01/02/2015 21:59
Information and voting
The Economic Approach to Public Policy
Can traditional economic theory help to solve today's vexing social problems? This unique collection of thirty-six papers strongly suggests that it can. The economic approach is applied imaginatively by the authors to a wide range of contemporary issues, such as crime, higher education, the environment, revenue sharing, equity, justice, and the distribution of income. The articles also deal with governmental behavior and the role of the economist…
State budget sizes and the marginal productivity of governors
Optimum Legislative Sizes and Voting Rules
Legislatures as Unions
We present a model of the legislature as a union, where in some states the legislative wage is set in the constitution (the analogue to competition) and in others it is set by the legislators (monopoly). We test the implications of the model with respect to relative legislator wages in the two types of states and with respect to other aspects of the legislature as a union. All of the implications hold up quite well in empirical tests. Indeed, as …
Economists and Public Policy
Rent-seeking competition in political parties
An economic theory of mutually advantageous issue linkages in international negotiations
There has been considerable interest in recent years in the question of issue linkages in international negotiations. What is significant about discussions of linkages in the present era is the stress put on making trade-offs explicit among issues. Most of the highly publicized cases of proposed issue linkages appear to have been motivated by attempts of individual countries or groups of countries to extend their dominant bargaining or veto power…
Chaining Leviathan
Research Article| June 01 1980 Chaining Leviathan: the Case of Gladstonian Finance Barry Baysinger; Barry Baysinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert Tollison Robert Tollison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (2): 206–213. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-12-2-206 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site …
Politicians, Legislation, and the Economy
Rent Seeking
Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society
Adam Smith's Analysis of Joint-Stock Companies
We defend Adam Smith's theory of the firm from the standpoint of positive economics. We argue that his evaluation of the joint-stock firm was not moralistic but instead based on available empirical evidence. The record showed that joint-stock companies had a poor survivorship record, even when granted legal monopoly status. His analysis contained an explanation of the role of agency costs within the firm. Finally, he did not discuss the East Indi…
Power, Politics, and Prosperity
The widely different perspectives from which various writers approach issues of international economic interdependence can make this an extremely confusing area for the nonspecialist. In hopes of reducing this problem we attempt to briefly characterize and offer comments on the strengths and weaknesses of a number of the major schools of thought about the roles of power, politics, and economic prosperity in the political economy of international …
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