Books by Gordon Tullock

5. The strongest version of Shambaugh’s argument is that there is no “core” to the internal coups, a’ la Gordon Tullock’s book Autocracy .  You get too many internal coups, or too many incipient internal coups, and the public square is required to impose structural equilibrium on the problem.  Maybe so, but that requires lots of claims about the internal dynamics of Chinese politics, and the lack of internal coup stability mechanisms.  The cited evidence by Shambaugh does not seem to bear direct...

1. Open Secrets of American Foreign Policy , by Gordon Tullock.  A history of the bloopers and stupidities of American foreign policy, from virtually day one.  If you think Gordon embraces a narrow, reductionist rational choice view of the world, here is the antidote.  Gordon tells me that foreign policy has long been his number one interest, although he has written on the topic only now.