T. Nicolaus Tideman: Curriculum Vitae

Office Address:
Economics Department, VPI&SU
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0316
Phone: 540-231-7592; 540-951-2398
Fax: 540-231-5097; 540-953-1159
Email: ntideman@vt.edu

Degrees:

• Ph.D., University of Chicago (Economics), 1969.
• A.B., Reed College (Economics and Mathematics), 1965.

• Professor of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985-.
• Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Buckingham,Buckingham, England, 1985-86.
• Associate Professor of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975-85.
• Research Associate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1979-80.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Study of Public Choice, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1973-1975.
• Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1970-71.
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1969-1973.

a. Editing

• Editor, Land and Taxation, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1994

• Editor (with Helen Ladd) of COUPE Papers on Public Economics 5 (1981).
  Theme: Tax and expenditure limitations.

• Editor of a special supplement to the Spring 1977 issue of Public Choice.
  Theme: The demand-revealing process.

b. Refereed Contributions to Journals

• "Individual Responsibility for Health Care Costs: A Problem of Social Justice," International Review of Comparative Public Policy 6 (1995), pp. 275-87.

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

• "Airport Congestion and Noise: Interplay of Allocation and Distribution," Transportation Research Record 1450 (1994), pp. 3-7.

• "The Legitimate Repudiation of a Nation's Debts" (with Sharon Lockwood), Eastern Economic Journal 19 (1993), pp. 251-56.

• "Private Possession as an Alternative to Rental and Private Ownership of Land" (in Russian), Agrarnaya Nauka (Agrarian Science) 2.93 (1993), pp. 22-24.

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

• "The Relative Efficiency of Approval and Condorcet Voting Procedures" (with Samuel Merrill III), Rationality and Society 3 (1991), 65-77.

• "Integrating Land-Value Taxation with the Internalization of Spatial Externalities," Land Economics 66 (1990), 341-55.

• "The Justification of Territorial Claims," Fourth World Review 37 (1990), 15-16.

• "Complete Independence of Clones in the Ranked Pairs Rule" (with Thomas Zavist), Social Choice and Welfare 6 (1989), 167-173.

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

• "Independence of Clones as a Criterion for Voting Rules," Social Choice and Welfare 4 (1987), 185-206.

• "An Instrumental Variables Approach to Income Redistribution" (with Morris Coats), Public Choice 52 (1987), 187-192.

• "A Majority-rule Characterization with Multiple Extensions," Social Choice and Welfare 3 (1986), 17-30.

• "Efficient Local Public Goods Without Compulsory Taxes," Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy 2 (1985), 181-202.

• "Investigating the Probability of a Voting Cycle When the Electorate is Large," Economics Letters 17 (1985), 23-25.

• "Remorse, Elation, and the Paradox of Voting," Public Choice 46 (1985), 103-106.

• "An Experiment in the Demand Revealing Process," Public Choice 41 (1983), 387-401.

• "A Collective Conception of Collective Value," Perspectives on Local Public Finance and Public Policy 1 (1983), 3-22.

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

• "The Relevance of Imaginary Alternatives" (with I.J. Good), Journal of Statistics and Computer Simulation 12 (1981), 313-315.

• "Coalitions under Demand Revealing" (with Gordon Tullock), Public Choice 36 (1981), 323-328.

• "The Evaluation of Rules for Making Collective Decisions: A reply to Kormendi," Research in Law and Economics 2 (1980), 213-217.

• "Integration over a Simplex, Truncated Cubes, and Eulerian Numbers" (with I.J. Good), Numerische Mathematik 30 (1979), 355-367.

• "A Generalized Chi-Square for the Significance of Differences in Repeated, Related Measures Applied to Different Samples," Educational and Psychological Measurement 39 (1979), 333-336.

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

• "The Capabilities of Voting Rules in the Absence of Coalitions," Policy and Politics 4 (June 1976), 23-44.

• "From Individual to Collective Ordering Through Multi-dimensional Attribute Space" (with I.J. Good), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 347 (January 1976), 371-385.

• "Gasoline Rationing and Market Pricing: Public Choice in Political Economy" (with James Buchanan), Atlanta Economic Journal 2 (November 1974), 15-26.

• "Defining Area Distress in Unemployment," Public Policy 21 (Fall 1973), 441-492.

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

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

• "The Efficient Provision of a Local Non-Private Good" (with Eugene Smolensky and Richard Burton), Geographical Analysis 2 (July 1970), 330-342.

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

c. Published contributions to symposia and occasional volumes

• "Land Taxation and Efficient Land Speculation," forthcoming in a conference volume for the University of Chicago Centennial Conference on Privatization of Land in Formerly Socialist Countries, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.

• "Voting and the Revelation of Preferences," forthcoming in Dennis Mueller (ed.), Perspectives on Public Choice, Cambridge University Press.

• "The Economics of Efficient Taxes on Land," pp. 103-140 in N. Tideman (ed.), Land and Taxes London: Shepheard-Walwyn.

• "Capacities and Limits of Democracy," American Economic Review 84 (May, 1994), pp. 349-52.

• "Integrating Rent and Demand Revelation in the Evaluation and Financing of Services," pp. 133-150 in Hiroshi Ohta and Jacques-Franáois Thisse (eds.), Does Economic Space Matter? London: Macmillan (1993).

• "Being Just While Conceptions of Justice are Changing," American Economic Review 82 (May, 1992), pp. 280-84.

• "Commons and Commonwealths: A New Framework for the Justification of Territorial Claims," pp. 109-29 in Robert Andelson (ed.), Commons Without Tragedy, Savage, Maryland: Barnes and Noble (1991).

• "Property Rights and the Social Contract: The Constitutional Challenge in the U.S.A.," pp. 47-59 in Richard Noyes (ed.), Now the Synthesis: Capitalism, Socialism and the New Social Contract, New York: Holmes and Meier (1991).

• Comment on I.D. Hill, "Some Aspect of Elections - to Fill One Seat or Many," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General) 151, Part 2 (1988), 271.

• "The 'Standard' Has Already Happened," Economic Affairs 6, No. 5 (June/July 1986), 38-39.

• "The Ethics of Tax and Expenditure Decisions," Economic Affairs 6, No. 7 (August/September 1986), 26-28.

• "Toward Restructuring of Normative Economics," The American Behaviorist 28 (November 1984), 233-248.

• "Deciding What to Kill," pp. 317-322 in H. Miller (ed.), Ethics and Animals, The Humana Press (1983).

• "Liability Rules, Compulsory Exchange, and Compensated Incentive Compatibility," pp. 105-134 in COUPE Papers on Public Economics 3, 1979.

• "Integration and Investment Incentives," pp. 285-289 in 1978 Compendium of Tax Research, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

• "Some Limitations of Demand-Revealing Processes: Comment" (with Gordon Tullock), Public Choice 29-2 (1977--Special Supplement), 125-128.

• "Some Limitations of the Groves-Ledyard Optimal Mechanism" (with Joseph Greenberg and Robert Mackay), Public Choice 29-2 (1977--Special Supplement), 129-137.

• "Ethical Foundations of the Demand-Revealing Process," Public Choice 29-2 (1977--Special Supplement), 71-77.

• "Employment and Earnings in the Nonprofit Charitable Sector," pp. 325-331 in Research Papers Sponsored by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs Vol. I, History, Trends, and Current Magnitudes, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1977.

• "The Tax Treatment of Business Profits under Inflationary Conditions" (with Donald P. Tucker), pp. 33-74 in Henry Aaron (ed.), Inflation and the Income Tax, Brookings, 1976.

• "Gold, Money and the Law: The Limits of Governmental Monetary Authority" (with James Buchanan), pp. 9-69 in H. Manne and R. Miller (eds.), Gold, Money and the Law, Aldine, 1975.

• "Saving and Investment Aspects of Corporate and Personal Tax Integration: A Framework for Analysis" (with Warren Weber), pp. 167-181 in Conference on Tax Research 1975, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

• "Resolving Land Use Conflicts," pp. 80-87 in Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies--1972, The Farm Foundation, Chicago.

• "Property as a Moral Concept," pp. 202-205 in G. Wunderlich and W. L. Gibson (eds.), Perspectives of Property, Penn. State, 1972.

• "The Economical Uses of Congestion" (with Eugene Smolensky and Don Nichols), pp. 37-52 in the proceedings of the Tenth European Conference of the Regional Science Association, Papers of the Regional Science Association 26, 1972.

• "Waiting Time as a Congestion Charge" (with Eugene Smolensky and Don Nichols), pp. 95-108 in S. Mushkin (ed.), Public Prices for Public Products, The Urban Institute, 1972.

• "Efficient Provision of Public Goods," pp. 111-123 in S. Mushkin (ed.), Public Prices for Public Products, The Urban Institute, 1972.

• "Land Use Control Through Administered Compensation," pp. 287-293 in Proceedings of the 1969 meetings of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

d. Book Reviews

• Review of Incentives in Public Decision-Making, by Jerry Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont, Journal of Economic Literature 18 (March 1980), 114-115.

• Review of Private Wants, Public Means, by Gordon Tullock, Public Choice 13 (Fall 1972), 138-140.

e. Other writing

• "Who Pays for Public Education in Virginia," Virginia State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, 1978.

Research Grants:

• "Gathering Rank-Order Voting Data and Evaluating Systems of Proportional Representation," NSF Grant, 1987-88.

• "An Experiment in the Demand-Revealing Process," NSF Grant, 1981-82, (with Gordon Tullock).

• "Theoretical and Practical Problems Involved in Improving the Efficiency of Collective Decision Rules," NSF Grant, 1978-80 (with Gordon Tullock and I.J. Good). Administration:

• Acting Department Head, Economics, Virginia Tech, 1994.

• Associate Department Head, Economics, Virginia Tech, 1981-85, 1993-96.

• Director of Graduate Studies in Economics, Virginia Tech, 1976-79.

Consulting for Law Firms:

• Computation of lost income from an accident, for a Virginia law firm.

• Economic analysis of child care costs, for a Virginia law firm.

• Analysis of the application of a Virginia law regarding division in a divorce of property owned at the time of a marriage, for a Virginia law firm.

• Evaluation of econometric estimates of damages, for defense in a case of alleged collusion in road-building contracts, for a Florida law firm.

• Development of evidence of bias in property tax assessment, for Boston law firms.

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