TULLOCK CONFERENCE George Mason University October 2-3, 2015
October 2 (Friday) The Scholarship and Impact of Gordon Tullock
9:00 am – 10:30 am TULLOCK and the STATE
Thomas Apolte University of Münster Tullock’s Models of Dictatorship and Revolution Toke Aidt University of Cambridge Rent Seeking and Corruption Roger Congleton West Virginia University Tullock’s Implicit Analytical History
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11:00 am – 12:00 pm TULLOCK and LAW AND ECONOMICS
Francesco Parisi University of Minnesota Gordon Tullock and the Court Stefan Voigt University of Hamburg Gordon Tullock and the Law
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm PUBLIC CHOICE
Arye Hillman Bar Ilan University On the Nature and Importance of Rent Seeking Nicolaus Tideman Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Demand Revealing Process Michael Munger Duke University Gordon Tullock’s Impact on Political Science and Georg Vanberg
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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm THE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE
Arthur Schram University of Amsterdam Tullock and Public Choice Experiments David Levy George Mason University Tullock and Scientific Discovery and Sandra Peart University of Richmond Jac Heckelman Wake Forest University Tullock and Scientific Inquiry
6:00 pm – 7:15 pm DINNER Dinner Talk by James Miller
October 3 (Saturday) Plenary Sessions: Gordon Tullock the Catalyst
9:30 am William Shughart Utah State University Major Contributions and Robert Tollison Clemson University 10:15 am Kevin Grier University of Oklahoma Institutions and Economic Growth 11: 00 am Dennis Mueller University of Vienna Gordon Tullock the Catalyst
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm MEMORIES of GORDON: THE MAN, POLYMATH, AND MENTOR
Gordon Brady Economist and Writer Nicolaus Tideman Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Peter Boettke George Mason University Daniel Houser George Mason University Edward Lopez Western Carolina University Bryan Caplan George Mason University Roger Congleton West Virginia University