This article introduces Buchanan's comment on Tiebout's "A Pure Theory of Local Public Expenditures". It helps us to understand the nature of the relationship between Buchanan and Tiebout. Usually, it is claimed that Buchanan modeled Tiebout's insights, that there exists a Buchanan-Tiebout...

The University of Chicago occupies a central place in the history of law and economics. To this point, however, scant attention has been given in the literature to how the prospect of an economic analysis of law was received within the Law School at Chicago when the subject was in its infancy....

Virginia Political Economy (VPE), one of the main branches of Public Choice, is often if not always associated with the names of a few scholars, the leaders of a school in economics. It is particularly significant that these scholars never worked alone. At the University of Virginia, where it...