A Special Issue Of Public Choice On The Intellectual Legacy of Gordon Tullock

~ Frederic Sautet ~

FYI, don't miss the special issue of Public Choice, edited by Charles Rowley and Daniel Houser, on the Intellectual Legacy of Gordon Tullock. It contains serveral papers on the academic career and the diverse contributions of Gordon Tullock to various fields, such as constitutional political economy, bureaucracy, the problem of social cost, bioeconomics, experimental economics, and so on. It's a great way to become acquainted with, or to deepen one's knowledge of Tullock's work. For instance, Denis Mueller has a paper on "Gordon Tullock and Public Choice;" Robert Tollison on "The Economic Theory of Rent Seeking;" and Michael Reksulak and William Shughart II on "What Should Government Do?"

Gordon Tullock and Leonard Liggio shaking hands at Tullock's retirement celebration in 2008.

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[MBT M.Walk]

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[Kristhy]

I think the most you can say about the Peltzman effect is that the ipnmovemerts in health that result from ipnmovemerts in safety may be less than you expect. I've never understood the Peltzman effect arguments for precisely this reason. Because I think you're exactly right here: You should expect less of an improvement in safety from ipnmovemerts/regulation than you would holding everything constant. Or, in other words, there's a substitution effect. But why is there any reason to expect total substitution, or risk-level targeting? Or is there something I'm missing? Wouldn't a "full" Peltzman effect require some pretty bizarre assumptions about people's appetite for risk/utility for safety?