"An individualist theory of collective choice implies, almost automatically, that the basic decision-making rules be r…"

"Superficially, the power-maximizer in the collective-choice process and the utility-maximizer in the market process m…"

"The most effective way of illustrating the distinction between the individualist-economic approach and economic deter…"

"Tullock and I considered ourselves to be simply taking the tools of economics, looking at something like the structur…"

"The class-dominance approach to political activity is acutely related to our own in an unfortunate terminological sen…"

"Our purpose in this book is to derive a preliminary theory of coUectivechoice that is in some respects analogous to t…"

"Any theory of collective choice must attempt to explain or to describe the means through which conflicting interests …"

"Reduced to its barest essentials, the economic assumption is simply that the representative or the average individual…"

"Both the economic relation and the political relation represent cooperation on the part of two or more individuals. T…"

"It is also necessary to emphasize that economic theory does not try to explain all human behavior, even all of that w…"