Robert D. Tollison (1942-2016)
Co-Founder, Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism
BB&T Senior Fellow and J. Wilson Newman Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
Professor Tollison was Editor of Public Choice for 17 years. He served on the faculties at Cornell University, Texas A & M University, Virginia Tech, Clemson University and George Mason University, served as Department Head at Texas A & M (1974-76) and as Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason (1984-1998). Professor Tollison served in government twice - as a Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of Economic advisors (1971-72) and as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (1981-83). He was past president of the Southern Economic Association (1985) and the Public Choice Society (1994-96). He was one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of public choice and worked on a major study of the integration of intercollegiate and professional sports.
Publications: Professor Tollison authored and co-authored 12 books and numerous textbooks, more than 100 invited articles in edited collections and approximately 250 peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Among these include: Politicized Economics, Sacred Trust, The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior, Economics: Private Markets and Public Choice
