This paper seeks to explain the success of public choice at Virginia Tech in the 1970s in two ways. First, I reflect on my graduate school experience at Virginia Tech, with the intent of identifying particular characteristics of the people and location of Virginia Tech, including its remoteness,...

Offers an explanation for the widespread reduction in marginal tax rates that is founded on the growing competitiveness of governments that can be attributed to the expanding mobility of world resources. Argues that modern technological developments have increased the elasticity of demand for...

President Nixon's re-election committee had in 1972 more than $50 million with which to wage its campaign against George McGovern. Because it was commonly presumed that Nixon would easily win the election, the "dirty tricks" and the Watergate burglary have been variously described as...