Charles Tiebout

Charles Mills Tiebout
Born	October 12, 1924(1924-10-12) Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Died	January 16, 1968(1968-01-16) (aged 43)
Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Fields	Economic geography, Regional economics, Public economics
Institutions	Northwestern University of Washington
Alma mater	Wesleyan University University of Michigan (doctorate)
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. Graduated Wesleyan University in 1950, received 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 feet voting, that is, physically moving to another jurisdiction where policies are closer to one's ideologies, instead of voting to change a government and/or their policies.

Major publications

• Tiebout, C. A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures // The Journal of Political Economy. — 1956. — Vol.64. — #5. — P. 416—424.
• Tiebout, C. Exports and Regional Economic Growth // The Journal of Political Economy. — 1956. — Vol. 64. — No. 2. — P. 160-164.
• Tiebout, C. Community Income Multipliers: A Population Growth Model // Journal of Regional Science. — 1960. — No. 2(1) — P. 75.
• Tiebout, C. An Economic Theory of Fiscal Decentralization / In: NBER, Public Finances, Needs, Sources and Utilization. — Princeton (Univ.Press), 1961. — P.79-96.
• Tiebout, C., Hansen, W.L. An Intersectoral Flows Analysis of the California Economy // The Review of Economics and Statistics. 1963. — Vol. 45. — No. 4. — P. 409-418.

Links

• Charles Tiebout page at University of Washington site
• Information about Charles Tiebout in William A. Fischel article "Municipal Corporations, Homeowners, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax"

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Name	Tiebout, Charles
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Date of birth	October 12, 1924
Place of birth	Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Date of death	January 16, 1968
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