The Social Dilemma: Of Autocracy, Revolution, Coup d'Etat, and War

by Gordon Tullock, Charles K. Rowley (Editor)

The Social Dilemma reflects Tullock’s contributions to areas of public choice that typically are ignored by mainstream scholars, who tend to focus on cooperative, democratic states. Tullock explores instead the workings of the dictatorial state and the economics of war between nations. Gordon Tullock 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. Charles K. Rowley 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.

Genres: Economics, Nonfiction

402 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Cortney R · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tullock has a knack for presenting clear arguments using simple logic. That is mostly true here. While it's an interesting subject - autocracy - the fact that it is a collection of writings from journals as well as books means there is a lot of repetition.