 Gordon Tullock (1922- )Chapter 8 in Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, pp 109-130 from Springer Abstract: Gordon Tullock was born in Rockford, Illinois on February 16, 1922. His father, George was a hardy Midwesterner of Scottish ancestry, his mother, Helen, was of equally hardy Pennsylvania Dutch stock. He obtained his basic education in the public schools of that city, displaying from early childhood a superior intellectual ability that clearly distinguished him from his peers. In 1940, Tullock departed for the School of Law at the University of Chicago to combine a two-year program of undergraduate courses with a four-year formal law program. In fact, he completed the initial two-year program in a single year. His law school program was interrupted by his being drafted into military service as an infantry rifleman in 1943, but not before he had all but completed a one-semester course in economics taught by Henry Simons. This course was to be Tullock’s only formal exposure to economics, a fact that no doubt enhanced rather than hindered his future success in contributing highly original ideas to that discipline. Keywords: Collective Action; Public Choice; Constitutional Rule; Natural Economist; Rational Choice Model (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-75870-1_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75870-1_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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