Virginia political economy

1. Genesis. Economic imperialism Public choice Public choice what I hope for the next twenty-five years Casual recollections of an editor 2. Problems of majority voting. Problems of majority voting The irrationality of intransitivity Entry barriers in politics Federalism : problems of scale The general irrelevance of the general impossibility theorem Why so much stability Is there a paradox of voting? 3. The demand-revealing process. A new and superior process for making social choices / T. Nicolaus Tideman and Gordon Tullock The demand-revealing process as a welfare indicator Demand-revealing process, coalitions, and public goods 4. Rent seeking. The welfare costs of tariffs, monopolies, and theft The cost of transfers More on the welfare costs of transfers Competing for aid The transitional gains trap Efficient rent seeking Rent seeking 5. Redistributive politics. Inheritance justified Inheritance rejustified The charity of the uncharitable The rhetoric and reality of redistribution

6. Bureaucracy. Dynamic hypothesis on bureaucracy The expanding public sector : Wagner squared / James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock 7. The social dilemma. The edge of the jungle Corruption and anarchy The paradox of revolution Rationality and revolution 8. The problem of social cost. Public and private interaction under reciprocal externality / James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock Social cost and government action Public decisions as public goods Information without profit Polluters' profits and political response : direct controls versus taxes / James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock Polluters' profits and political response : direct controls versus taxes : Reply / James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock Hawks, doves, and free riders 9. Law and economics. An economic approach to crime The costs of a legal system / Warren F. Schwartz and Gordon Tullock On the efficient organization of trials On the efficient organization of trials : reply to McChesney, and Ordover and Weitzman Judicial errors and a proposal for reform / I.J. Good and Gordon Tullock Court errors

Legal heresy : presidential address to the Western Economic Association annual meeting

1995

Juries

10. Bioeconomics. The coal tit as a careful shopper

Biological externalities

Biological applications of economics

The economics of (very) primitive societies

11. In the public interest. A (partial rehabilitation of the public interest theory

How to do well while doing good!

Appendixes : Gordon Tullock : biographical note

Contents of the selected works of Gordon Tullock.