{"title":"Charles K Rowley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"political-economy-of-the-minimal-state-book-charles-k-rowley-9781858981994","title":"THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MINIMAL STATE","description":"This major book brings together four essays which rigorously defend classical liberal philosophy and present a convincing justification of the minimal state.In Before Resorting to Politics, the first essay, Anthony de Jasay rejects political solutions, seeks to de-politicise society and provides an original analysis of liberty, coercion, the role of chance and deserts in the distribution of resources. This is followed by Norman Barry's Classical Liberalism in the Age of Post-Communism, a succinct but comprehensive reconstruction of classical liberal theory explaining its implications for law, constitutionalism and public policy.    Adam Smith into the Twenty-First Century by Edwin West shows how Smith's liberalism - less ambivalent than that of J.S. Mill and his followers - continues to thrive and is enjoying a revival in the 1990s. In the final essay, Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy, Richard E. Wagner offers an approach to welfare economics and economic policy appropriate for a classically liberal society.  The essays are co-ordinated by an introduction in which Charles K. Rowley explains why some notable classical liberal scholars have abandoned classical liberalism and presents a vigorous philosophical justification for the minimal state.  Including essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, The Political Economy of the Minimal State makes an important and distinguished contribution to one of the most contentious issues in twentieth century political economy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49573993808145,"sku":"GOR003860335","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1858981999.jpg?v=1750899232"},{"product_id":"economic-contractions-in-the-united-states-book-charles-k-rowley-9780255366427","title":"Economic Contractions in the United States","description":"This monograph provides a detailed explanation how the Great Depression and the current financial crisis and economic contraction in the United States were both caused by and exacerbated by government, not by capitalism. The monograph provides a well-reasoned free market alternative to current statist policies with respect to economic recovery in the United States.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613330088209,"sku":"GOR002323523","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52473732464913,"sku":"NLS9780255366427","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0255366426.jpg?v=1751164683"},{"product_id":"law-economics-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975392","title":"Law \u0026 Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003eGordon Tullock's innovative scholarship in law and economics shines in this volume. It includes, in full, his famous book \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Law\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book to analyze the law from the perspective of economics. It also includes an influential and controversial monograph, \u003ci\u003eThe Case against the Common Law\u003c\/i\u003e, the best chapters from his book, \u003ci\u003eTrials on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a sequence of influential articles in the field of law and economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49787670888721,"sku":"CIN0865975396G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51210632495377,"sku":"NIN9780865975392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975396.jpg?v=1751012575"},{"product_id":"virginia-political-economy-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975316","title":"Virginia Political Economy","description":"Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49796176675089,"sku":"CIN0865975310G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50930867470609,"sku":"CIN0865975310VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740433379601,"sku":"NIN9780865975316","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52866282160401,"sku":"GOR014649126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975310.jpg?v=1750704726"},{"product_id":"economics-of-politics-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975347","title":"Economics of Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the fourth volume in Liberty Fund's \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Gordon Tullock.\u003c\/i\u003e This volume includes some of Gordon Tullock's most noteworthy contributions to the theory and application of public choice, which is a relatively new science that links economics and political action. This volume combines the best parts of two of his books, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Wants: Public Means\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Voting\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his famous monograph \u003ci\u003eThe Vote Motive\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common thread of \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is the importance of the bond between Homo politicus and Homo economicus: they are the same species, each driven largely by self-interest in vigorous pursuit of such personal objectives as wealth, power, prestige, and income security within the confines of society. \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e covers such diverse public choice topics as: the nature and origins of public choice, the power of using economic analysis to understand and predict the behavior of politically influenced markets, and an evaluation of voting rules and political institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqually confident in both the normative and the positive branches of the discipline, and well-versed in the wide variety of institutions and practices of democracy throughout history, Tullock takes the reader on a journey that goes well beyond the conventional horizon of public choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884140962065,"sku":"CIN0865975345VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009011286289,"sku":"NIN9780865975347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975345.jpg?v=1751234333"},{"product_id":"rent-seeking-society-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975354","title":"Rent-Seeking Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fifth volume in \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Gordon Tullock\u003c\/i\u003e consists of six parts, each part expounding on a separate component of the field. Part 1, Rent Seeking: An Overview, brings together two papers that focus on problems of defining rent-seeking behavior and outline the nature of the ongoing research program in a historical perspective. Part 2, More on Efficient Rent Seeking, contains four contributions in which Tullock elaborates on his 1980 article on efficient rent seeking. Part 3, The Environments of Rent Seeking, consists of eight papers that collectively display the breadth of the rent-seeking concept. Part 4, The Cost of Rent Seeking, comprises seven papers that address several important issues about the cost of rent seeking to society as a whole. Part 5 is Tullock's short monograph \u003ci\u003eExchanges and Contracts\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he develops a systematic theory of exchange in political markets. In Part 6, Future Directions for Rent-Seeking Research, Tullock focuses on the importance of information in the political marketplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work has been carefully constructed to build on the inaugural volume in this collection and to ease students through the field in a clear and concise manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49990305448209,"sku":"CIN0865975353G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51210634625297,"sku":"NIN9780865975354","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975353.jpg?v=1775728576"},{"product_id":"social-dilemma-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975385","title":"Social Dilemma","description":"Explores political market behaviour that is based on conflict rather than on bargaining and thus behaviour that results in wealth reduction rather than in gains from trade. This book was written in response to the tumultuous events of the 1960s and 1970s, and it draws from two books by Gordon Tullock, The Social Dilemma and Autocracy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366331945233,"sku":"CIN0865975388G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51210633543953,"sku":"NIN9780865975385","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975388.jpg?v=1751140171"},{"product_id":"bureaucracy-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975361","title":"Bureaucracy","description":"Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371256582417,"sku":"CIN0865975361G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51210632626449,"sku":"NIN9780865975361","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975361.jpg?v=1754893972"},{"product_id":"property-rights-and-the-limits-of-democracy-book-charles-k-rowley-9781852785291","title":"Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy","description":"Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom.  At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist-socialist ideas, this book presents essays by four political economists evaluating a range of feasible reforms intended to breathe new life into constitutional republicanism.  The first essay by James M. Buchanan grounds the defence of private property ownership in the protection that it affords to individual liberty. This is followed by a succinct but comprehensive account by Gordon Tullock of his research programme in rent seeking.  This is a great and instructive contribution which skilfully draws out the dangerous implications of rent seeking for private property rights.  A far-reaching and insightful essay by Richard E. Wagner exposes the failure of the United States constitution to overcome the tyranny of the majority so feared by the Founding Fathers: the author demonstrates why the tyranny of the majority cannot be overcome by a written constitution unless the institutions of society are designed to offer complementary support to limited government and the rule of law.  In the final essay, Charles Rowley retraces the history of social choice theory, identifies the errors that it has promulgated and the corrective lessons that can be learned from the classical liberal philosophy that it has substantially ignored.    Including essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy makes an important and distinguished contribution to one of the most central issues in political economy in the late twentieth century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50401142341905,"sku":"CIN1852785292G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852785292.jpg?v=1751378713"},{"product_id":"organization-of-inquiry-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975330","title":"Organization of Inquiry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Organization of Inquiry, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e the third volume in Liberty Fund's \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, \u003c\/i\u003e was originally published by Duke University Press in 1966. This is a treatise by one of the most stalwart practitioners of the scientific method in political economy--Gordon Tullock. Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University, writes in his introduction to this book, From a purely technical perspective, this book stands out as his  Tullock's] best-written single authored work. The book sets out his own views on scientific method--views that he would faithfully reflect in all of his subsequent scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Tullock focuses attention on the organization of science, raising important questions about scientific inquiry and specifically about the problems of science as a social system. Tullock poses such questions as how do scientists engage in apparently cooperative contributions in the absence of hierarchic organization and why are scientific contributions worthy, for the most part, of the public's trust? Throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Organization of Inquiry, \u003c\/i\u003e he sets out to answer these questions and many more through a pioneering exploration of the interrelationship between economics and the philosophy of science, much of which defied then conventional wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in any scientific endeavor will find the combination of Tullock's powerful logic, his sharp forensic skills, and his barbed wit completely elucidating and helpful to their pursuits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579328106769,"sku":"CIN0865975337G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009058439441,"sku":"NIN9780865975330","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975337.jpg?v=1751330859"},{"product_id":"selected-works-of-gordon-tullock-10-volume-set-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975415","title":"Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, 10-Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the past half-century Gordon Tullock continually advanced the frontiers of political economy, most particularly with respect to the workings of representative democracies and of autocracies. This ten-volume series, edited and arranged thematically, brings together Tullock's most significant contributions to economics, political science, public choice, sociology, law and economics, and bioeconomics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars will undoubtedly find the extensive breadth and depth of Tullock's writings enriching. The general reader, as well as the student of politics, and all who love economic liberty, will find Tullock's prose lucid, readable, and sprinkled with wit. His forensic argument is penetrating, compelling, and clear, and his brilliant mind is surprisingly accessible to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Gordon Tullock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e provides an entr e to the mind of a legend in the field of political economics. Professor Rowley gives a deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-2014) was Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became \u003ci\u003ePublic Choice\u003c\/i\u003e and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2013) was Duncan Black Professor of Economics, a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University, and the General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008787153169,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008791019793,"sku":"NIN9780865975415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975418.jpg?v=1751330860"},{"product_id":"bureaucarcy-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975255","title":"Bureaucarcy","description":"Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008826736913,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008829718801,"sku":"NIN9780865975255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53356718194961,"sku":"NGR9780865975255","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975256.jpg?v=1751234332"},{"product_id":"organization-of-inquiry-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975224","title":"Organization of Inquiry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Organization of Inquiry, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e the third volume in Liberty Fund's \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, \u003c\/i\u003e was originally published by Duke University Press in 1966. This is a treatise by one of the most stalwart practitioners of the scientific method in political economy--Gordon Tullock. Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University, writes in his introduction to this book, From a purely technical perspective, this book stands out as his  Tullock's] best-written single authored work. The book sets out his own views on scientific method--views that he would faithfully reflect in all of his subsequent scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Tullock focuses attention on the organization of science, raising important questions about scientific inquiry and specifically about the problems of science as a social system. Tullock poses such questions as how do scientists engage in apparently cooperative contributions in the absence of hierarchic organization and why are scientific contributions worthy, for the most part, of the public's trust? Throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Organization of Inquiry, \u003c\/i\u003e he sets out to answer these questions and many more through a pioneering exploration of the interrelationship between economics and the philosophy of science, much of which defied then conventional wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in any scientific endeavor will find the combination of Tullock's powerful logic, his sharp forensic skills, and his barbed wit completely elucidating and helpful to their pursuits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008899678481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008902660369,"sku":"NIN9780865975224","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53358299119889,"sku":"NGR9780865975224","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975221.jpg?v=1751234331"},{"product_id":"social-dilemma-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975279","title":"Social Dilemma","description":"Volume 8 in \"The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock\" draws from two highly acclaimed and path-breaking books by Gordon Tullock, The Social Dilemma (1974) and Autocracy (1987). In this work, Tullock explores political market behaviour that is based on conflict rather than on bargaining and thus behaviour that results in wealth reduction rather than in gains from trade. \"The Social Dilemma: The Economics of War and Revolution\" was written in response to the tumultuous events of the 1960s and 1970s. Specifically, after the constitutional crisis caused by the Watergate scandal, Tullock acknowledged the Hobbesian nature of democracy. He posed that political figures are locked in wealth-reducing circumstances by the nature of the political game and inherent problems found in democracy. In Autocracy, Tullock provides a scientific analysis of dictatorships, using a rational choice model to analyse the behaviour of individuals under autocracy. Whereas most scholars have applied public choice theory only to co-operative, democratic states, Tullock extends the theory into new territory. In addition, his insights contribute to the discussion of pressing current issues, such as the transformation of autocracies into democracies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51009035698449,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009039597841,"sku":"NIN9780865975279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975272.jpg?v=1750819611"},{"product_id":"rent-seeking-society-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975248","title":"Rent-Seeking Society","description":"The fifth volume in \"The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock\" series consists of six parts, each part expounding on a separate component of the field. Part 1, 'Rent Seeking: An Overview', brings together two papers that focus on problems of defining rent-seeking behaviour and outline the nature of the on-going research program in a historical perspective. Part 2, 'More on Efficient Rent Seeking', contains four contributions in which Tullock elaborates on his 1980 article on efficient rent seeking. Part 3, 'The Environments of Rent Seeking', consists of eight papers that collectively display the breadth of the rent-seeking concept. Part 4, 'The Cost of Rent Seeking', comprises seven papers that address several important issues about the cost of rent seeking to society as a whole. Part 5 is Tullock's short monograph Exchanges and Contracts, in which he develops a systematic theory of exchange in political markets. In Part 6, 'Future Directions for Rent-Seeking Research', Tullock focuses on the importance of information in the political marketplace. This work has been carefully constructed to build on the inaugural volume in this collection and to ease students through the field in a clear and concise manner.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51009089601809,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009092387089,"sku":"NIN9780865975248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53356718162193,"sku":"NGR9780865975248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865975248.jpg?v=1750819611"},{"product_id":"economics-without-frontiers-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975408","title":"Economics without Frontiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eGordon Tullock delights in deploying rational-choice analysis effectively to areas widely considered to be outside the domain of economics. This volume illustrates the strength of this endeavor by reproducing the very best chapters from his controversial textbook \u003ci\u003eThe New World of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e. It also highlights Tullock's innovative contributions to bioeconomics, another area in which he pioneered the application of economic methods. Other sections of this volume reproduce his best contributions to more traditional areas of study, further solidifying the innovative strength of his scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51009104576785,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009108115729,"sku":"NIN9780865975408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/086597540X.jpg?v=1751140172"},{"product_id":"britannia-1066-1884-book-charles-k-rowley-9783319377681","title":"Britannia 1066-1884","description":"This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice, philosophy and the law to probe in depth into the evolution of Britannia from an impoverished feudal and then post-feudal autocracy into a constitutional monarchy with limited suffrage that provided the fulcrum for industrial and commercial success, making Britannia, by 1884, the richest nation, per capita, on the planet. The book challenges head-on the Whiggist liberal notion of Macaulay and Trevelyan that the path from oppression to freedom was one of unimpeded progress. Among its novel features, the book draws upon the dictator's handbook, as modeled by Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith to evaluate the period of varying autocracy, 1066-1688. The book draws upon modern public choice theory and legal history to evaluate the fragile, corrupt constitutional monarchy that oversaw the initial phase of post-Glorious Revolution Britannia, 1689-1775. At each stage, the philosophical battle between those who sought order and unity and those who sought individual liberty is meticulously outlined. The book draws on the contributions of the Scottish Enlightenment (Hume, Ferguson and Smith) and of classical liberal philosophy (John Stuart Mill) to explain the final vault of Britannia from a weak and corrupt to a robust and admired constitutional monarchy grounded on the rule of law, over the period 1776-1884.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52434217435409,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52434218058001,"sku":"NLS9783319377681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319377681.jpg?v=1759180073"},{"product_id":"readings-in-industrial-economics-book-charles-k-rowley-9780333109571","title":"Readings in Industrial Economics","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52543581683985,"sku":"NLS9780333109571","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780333109571.jpg?v=1760690222"},{"product_id":"british-monopolies-commission-book-charles-k-rowley-9781138878631","title":"The British Monopolies Commission","description":"This book is a key example of the emergence of public choice theory by an economist who was to become one of its major exponents. It combines a detailed, critical study of the Monopolies Commission, with an analysis of the economic issues involved in monopoly supervision and control.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52614060671249,"sku":"NLS9781138878631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781138878631.jpg?v=1761520176"},{"product_id":"britannia-1066-1884-book-charles-k-rowley-9783319046839","title":"Britannia 1066-1884","description":"This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice, philosophy and the law to probe in depth into the evolution of Britannia from an impoverished feudal and then post-feudal autocracy into a constitutional monarchy with limited suffrage that provided the fulcrum for industrial and commercial success, making Britannia, by 1884, the richest nation, per capita, on the planet. The book challenges head-on the Whiggist liberal notion of Macaulay and Trevelyan that the path from oppression to freedom was one of unimpeded progress. Among its novel features, the book draws upon the dictator's handbook, as modeled by Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith to evaluate the period of varying autocracy, 1066-1688. The book draws upon modern public choice theory and legal history to evaluate the fragile, corrupt constitutional monarchy that oversaw the initial phase of post-Glorious Revolution Britannia, 1689-1775. At each stage, the philosophical battle between those who sought order and unity and those who sought individual liberty is meticulously outlined. The book draws on the contributions of the Scottish Enlightenment (Hume, Ferguson and Smith) and of classical liberal philosophy (John Stuart Mill) to explain the final vault of Britannia from a weak and corrupt to a robust and admired constitutional monarchy grounded on the rule of law, over the period 1776-1884.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52668475212049,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668476064017,"sku":"NLS9783319046839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319046839.jpg?v=1762285117"},{"product_id":"economics-politics-of-wealth-distribution-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975378","title":"Economics \u0026 Politics of Wealth Distribution","description":"Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740433838353,"sku":"NIN9780865975378","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975378.jpg?v=1763483262"},{"product_id":"economics-without-frontiers-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975293","title":"Economics without Frontiers","description":"This final volume of 'The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock' series, presents an eclectic mix of essays by Gordon Tullock. The first three sections highlight his pioneering application of rational choice theory to fields outside the usual purview of economics, including criminal behaviour, sociobiology, and behaviour in non-human societies. The final four sections, all concerned with more traditional areas of economics, still show Tullock at his innovative best, challenging conventional thinking in such fields as public finance and monetary economics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740459069713,"sku":"NIN9780865975293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53356718227729,"sku":"NGR9780865975293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975293.jpg?v=1763483399"},{"product_id":"virginia-political-economy-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975200","title":"Virginia Political Economy","description":"Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740459266321,"sku":"NIN9780865975200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53358298923281,"sku":"NGR9780865975200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975200.jpg?v=1763483399"},{"product_id":"selected-works-of-gordon-tullock-10-volume-set-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975309","title":"Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, 10-Volume Set","description":"Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an original thinker. Professor Rowley provides deliberately sparse contextual introduction to each volume, opting to allow the very able and eloquent Tullock to speak for himself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740459102481,"sku":"NIN9780865975309","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975309.jpg?v=1763483399"},{"product_id":"british-monopolies-commission-book-charles-k-rowley-9780415313520","title":"The British Monopolies Commission","description":"This book is a key example of the emergence of public choice theory by an economist who was to become one of its major exponents. It combines a detailed, critical study of the Monopolies Commission, with an analysis of the economic issues involved in monopoly supervision and control.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53345278787857,"sku":"NGR9780415313520","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415313520.jpg?v=1774528393"},{"product_id":"law-economics-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975286","title":"Law \u0026 Economics","description":"Examines the fundamental principles of our legal system from a public choice perspective and compares its efficiency and accuracy with other systems. It presents in full two controversial works by Gordon Tullock, 'The Logic of the Law' and 'The Case against the Common Law', as well as chapters from his 'Trials on Trial' and other innovative articles. Highly critical of the US common law system, Tullock argues for various reforms, even for its replacement with a civil code system.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53358299382033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53358299644177,"sku":"NGR9780865975286","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975286.jpg?v=1774909089"},{"product_id":"economics-of-politics-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975231","title":"Economics of Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the fourth volume in Liberty Fund's \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Gordon Tullock.\u003c\/i\u003e This volume includes some of Gordon Tullock's most noteworthy contributions to the theory and application of public choice, which is a relatively new science that links economics and political action. This volume combines the best parts of two of his books, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Wants: Public Means\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Voting\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his famous monograph \u003ci\u003eThe Vote Motive\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common thread of \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is the importance of the bond between Homo politicus and Homo economicus: they are the same species, each driven largely by self-interest in vigorous pursuit of such personal objectives as wealth, power, prestige, and income security within the confines of society. \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e covers such diverse public choice topics as: the nature and origins of public choice, the power of using economic analysis to understand and predict the behavior of politically influenced markets, and an evaluation of voting rules and political institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqually confident in both the normative and the positive branches of the discipline, and well-versed in the wide variety of institutions and practices of democracy throughout history, Tullock takes the reader on a journey that goes well beyond the conventional horizon of public choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53372734603537,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53372734865681,"sku":"NGR9780865975231","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975231.jpg?v=1775177227"},{"product_id":"economics-politics-of-wealth-distribution-book-charles-k-rowley-9780865975262","title":"Economics \u0026 Politics of Wealth Distribution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe role of the democratic state in the redistribution of wealth is the topic of this readable and lively examination of an often controversial issue. Using public choice and rent-seeking analysis as a basis, Tullock discusses the role of the democratic state in the redistribution of wealth. He adds a refreshing dose of realism to a field of economics that is often dominated by idealistic visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGordon Tullock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University, where he was Distinguished Research Fellow in the Center for Study of Public Choice and University Professor of Law and Economics. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, the University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Arizona. In 1966 he founded the journal that became Public Choice and remained its editor until 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles K. Rowley\u003c\/b\u003e was Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He was also General Director of the Locke Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53372751380753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53372751511825,"sku":"NGR9780865975262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865975262.jpg?v=1775177370"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-charles-k-rowley.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}