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The non-nobelist: but Gordon Tullock, maverick economist, deserves one.(CONSERVATISM)(Biography)
SHORTLY after George Mason University opened its new law-school building a few years ago, then-governor of Virginia Jim Gilmore toured it. He asked to meet Gordon Tullock, a renowned economist on the faculty. Off a curving fourth-floor hallway, in Tullock's freshly furnished office, the two men shook hands. "You're the governor?" asked Tullock. "Good. Then maybe you can fix the leak in my ceiling."
And that, in a nutshell, may explain why Tullock has failed to win a Nobel Prize in economics--an award he richly deserves, but one that has eluded him for decades. He is famously impolitic, and has developed a knack for provocation--a skill that can be either ...
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