Supplying Private Goods and Collective Goods at Public Choice
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Secrets of Economics Editors
Publisher
The MIT Press
Publication Date
1-1-2014
First Page
231
Last Page
248
Abstract
Public Choice, under the title Papers on Non-Market Decision Making, was launched at the University of Virginia (UVA) by Gordon Tullock in 1966 (Rowley and Houser 2012, 16). Apparently at the suggestion of William C. Mitchell (Simmons 2011, xiii), the journal was given its present name in 1969, coincident with the establishment of the Center for Study of Public Choice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), which reassembled from diaspora a group of former UVA faculty members and graduate students who had scattered to the winds after administrators there had denied Tullock promotion to full professor on...
Recommended Citation
Shughart, William F. II, "Supplying Private Goods and Collective Goods at Public Choice" (2014). Economics and Finance Faculty Publications. Paper 984.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/econ_facpubs/984
