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This chapter attempts to impose analytical order on my 6 years as a city council member and 4 years as mayor of a small Utah city. It traces how Buchanan and Tullock affected my academic and public life and the difficulties of being a public choice mayor. The Buchanan/Tullock enterprise provides insights to how people act badly when trying to act through government and do good when acting in voluntary small groups.
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Buchanan JM (1977) Freedom in constitutional contract: perspectives of a political economist. Texas A & M University Press, College Station
Tullock G (1974) The social dilemma: the economics of war and revolution. University Publications, Blacksburg
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Simmons, R.T. (2013). Public Choice and Public Life. In: Lee, D. (eds) Public Choice, Past and Present. Studies in Public Choice, vol 28. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5909-5_16
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