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The National Conference of State Societies (NCSS) was charted by Congress on April 3, 1952, when President Harry Truman signed Public Law 82-293 (36 U.S.C. 1505).But the association was also known by other names in the early 20th and late 19th Century and the early roots date back to at least a listing of officers in the Congressional Directory of 1876 when the group was known as the Central ...
A 19th-century precursor of modern public choice theory was the work of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell, [10] which treated government as political exchange, a quid pro quo, in formulating a benefit principle linking taxes and expenditures. [11]
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Randall Gregory Holcombe (born June 4, 1950) is an American economist, and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. [1] He is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, [2] a Senior Fellow and member of the Research Advisory Council at The James Madison Institute, [3] and past president of the Public Choice Society. [4]
James McGill Buchanan Jr. (/ b juː ˈ k æ n ə n / bew-KAN-ən; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory [1] originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962.
Texas A&M University Edward J. Lopez is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism at Western Carolina University and President of the Public Choice Society. [ 1 ]
Texas State's only in-state Sun Belt conference rival was the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington). The rivalry never ceased as both schools moved from the Southland Conference to the Western Athletic Conference then on to the Sun Belt Conference until 2022 when the Sun Belt stopped sponsoring non-football teams and UT Arlington ...
In social choice theory, Condorcet's voting paradox is a fundamental discovery by the Marquis de Condorcet that majority rule is inherently self-contradictory.The result implies that it is logically impossible for any voting system to guarantee that a winner will have support from a majority of voters: for example there can be rock-paper-scissors scenario where a majority of voters will prefer ...