Charles Mills Tiebout (1924–1968) was an economist and geographer most known for his development of the Tiebout model, which suggested that there were actually non-political solutions to the free rider problem in local governance. He earned recognition in the area of local government and fiscal federalism with his widely cited paper “A pure theory of local expenditures”.[1] He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1950, and received a PhD in economics in University of Michigan in 1957. He was Professor of Economics and Geography at the University of Washington. He died suddenly on January 16, 1968, at age 43.
Charles M. Tiebout | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 12, 1924 Norwalk, Connecticut, United States |
| Died | January 16, 1968 (aged 43) |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University University of Michigan (PhD) |
| Known for | Tiebout model |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economic geography, Regional economics, Public economics |
| Institutions | Northwestern UCLA University of Washington |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Suits |
Tiebout is frequently associated with the concept of foot voting, that is, physically moving to another jurisdiction where policies are closer to one's ideologies, instead of voting to change a government or its policies.
Major publications
edit- Tiebout, C. (1956). "A pure theory of local expenditures". Journal of Political Economy. 64 (5): 416–424. doi:10.1086/257839. S2CID 10281240.
- Tiebout, C. (1956). "Exports and regional economic growth". Journal of Political Economy. 64 (2): 160–164. doi:10.1086/257771. S2CID 153430854.
- Tiebout, C. (1960). "Community income multipliers: a population growth model". Journal of Regional Science. 2 (1): 75–84. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1960.tb00836.x.
- Tiebout, C. (1961). "An economic theory of fiscal decentralization". NBER, public finances, needs, sources, and utilization. Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 79–96.
- Tiebout, C.; Hansen, W. L. (1963). "An intersectoral flows analysis of the California economy". Review of Economics and Statistics. 45 (4): 409–418. doi:10.2307/1927925. JSTOR 1927925.
References
edit- ^ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 670. ISBN 978-0415862875.
External links
edit- Charles Tiebout page at University of Washington site
- Information about Charles Tiebout in William A. Fischel article "Municipal Corporations, Homeowners, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax" Archived 2020-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Charles Tiebout at Find a Grave
- "Charles Tiebout". JSTOR.
- Charles Tiebout publications indexed by Google Scholar
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