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Robert D. Tollison: A remembrance

Author: Michael Munger

Published in: Public Choice | Issue 1-2/2017

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I met Bob in the early 1980s. He was called—unkindly, but not entirely inaccurately—“Dollar Bob” Tollison, for his habit (as the story was told) of moving whenever the benefits from moving, net of moving costs, exceeded one full American dollar. His list of “full-time” appointments included Longwood College, Cornell, Texas A&M (where he was promoted twice, and appointed chair, within just 5 years of finishing his Ph.D.), Miami, Virginia Tech, the Federal Trade Commission, Clemson 1.0, George Mason, Mississippi, and then Clemson 2.0. …

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Title: Robert D. Tollison: A remembrance
Author: Michael Munger
Publication date: 27-02-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Public Choice / Issue 1-2/2017
Print ISSN: 0048-5829
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0430-3

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