T. NICOLAUS TIDEMAN

Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor

Selected Publications:

Book

Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice , Ashgate Publishing, 2006.

Articles

“Measures of Concentration” (with Marshall Hall), American Statistical Association Journal 62 (March 1967), 162-168.

“Discrimination by Waiting Time in Merit Goods” (with Don Nichols and Eugene Smolensky), American Economic Review 61 (June 1971), 312-323.

“Local vs. National Pollution Control: Note” (with Sam Peltzman), American Economic Review 62 (December 1972), 959-963.

“A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices” (with Gordon Tullock), Journal of Political Economy 84 (December 1976), 1145-1159.

“Indices of Cheating on Multiple Choice Tests” (with Robert Frary and Thomas Watts), Journal of Educational Statistics 2 (Winter 1977), 235-256.

“Sterling Numbers and a Geometric Structure from Voting Theory” (with I.J. Good), Journal of Combinatorial Theory 23 (July 1977), 34-45.

“A Tax on Land Value is Neutral,” National Tax Journal 35 (1982), 109-111.

“Takings, Moral Evolution and Justice,” Columbia Law Review 88 (1988), 1714-1730.

“ Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in the Theory of Voting” (with George Bordes), Theory and Decision 30 (1991), 163-86.

“The Single Transferable Vote,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, No. 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 27-38.

“Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crimes? Only a Count Analysis Can Say” (with Florenz Plassmann), The Journal of Law and Economics, 44 (2) October 2001, part 2, pp. 771-798.

Selected Bibliography:

    1. "A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices" (with G. Tullock), Journal of Political Economy, 1976, 1145-59.
    2. "Independence of Clones as a Criterion for Voting Rules," Social Choice and Welfare, 1987, 185-206.
    3. "An Instrumental Variables Approach to Income Redistribution" (with M. Coats), Public Choice, 1987, 187-92.
    4. "Takings, Moral Evolution and Justice," Columbia Law Review, 1988, 1714-30.

Current Research Interests:

    • Economic Justice.
    • Land value taxation.
    • Voting rules.
    • Proportional representation.
    • Commodity money.

Contact Information:

3021 Pamplin Hall
(540) 231-7592
ntideman@vt.edu