Charles Tiebout

{{Short description|American economist and geographer}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Charles M. Tiebout

| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|10|12}}

| birth_place = Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|1|16|1924|10|12}}

| field = Economic geography, Regional economics, Public economics

| work_institutions = Northwestern
UCLA
University of Washington

| alma_mater = Wesleyan University
University of Michigan (PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Daniel Suits

| known_for = Tiebout model

}}

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”.{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=978-0415862875|pages=670}} 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.

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

  • {{cite journal

| last = Tiebout

| first = C.

| date = 1956

| title = A pure theory of local expenditures

| journal = Journal of Political Economy

| volume = 64

| issue = 5

| pages = 416–424

| doi = 10.1086/257839

| s2cid = 10281240

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Tiebout

| first = C.

| date = 1956

| title = Exports and regional economic growth

| journal = Journal of Political Economy

| volume = 64

| issue = 2

| pages = 160–164

| doi = 10.1086/257771

| s2cid = 153430854

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last = Tiebout

| first = C.

| date = 1960

| title = Community income multipliers: a population growth model

| journal = Journal of Regional Science

| volume = 2

| issue = 1

| pages = 75–84

| doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9787.1960.tb00836.x

}}

  • {{cite book

| last = Tiebout

| first = C.

| date = 1961

| chapter = An economic theory of fiscal decentralization

| title = NBER, public finances, needs, sources, and utilization

| publisher = Princeton Univ. Press

| pages = 79–96

}}

  • {{cite journal

| last1 = Tiebout

| first1 = C.

| last2 = Hansen

| first2 = W. L.

| date = 1963

| title = An intersectoral flows analysis of the California economy

| journal = Review of Economics and Statistics

| volume = 45

| issue = 4

| pages = 409–418

| doi = 10.2307/1927925

| jstor = 1927925

}}

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