Virginia Political Economy

Wisconsin Bookwatch, Sept, 2004

Virginia Political Economy

Gordon Tullock

Liberty Fund, Inc.

8335 Allison Pointe Trail, #300, Indianapolis, IN 46250-1684www.libertyfund.org

0865975310 $12.00 1-800-955-8335

Also available in a hardcover edition (0865975205, $20.00) Virginia Political Economy is a collection of selected works by Gordon Tullock which have been compiled, edited, and provided with an informative introduction by Charles K. Rowley (Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University) and is the first of a proposed ten volume series showcasing Tullocks' published academic papers and essays as selected from twenty-three books and several hundred articles and papgers produced by Tullock between 1954 and 2002. Chapters offer an in-depth exploration of such issues as the problems of majority voting, issues associated with redistributive policies, the problem of social cost, bioeconomics, and much more. A scholarly, rational, and well-presented voice of insight into difficult quandaries of state government and fiscal policy.