Charles Tiebout

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. He earned recognition in the area of local government and fiscal federalism with his widely cited paper “A pure theory of local expenditures”.^[1] He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1950, and received a 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.

Charles M. Tiebout
Born	(1924-10-12)October 12, 1924 Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
Died	January 16, 1968(1968-01-16) (aged 43)
Alma mater	Wesleyan University University of Michigan (PhD)
Known for	Tiebout model
Scientific career
Fields	Economic geography, Regional economics, Public economics
Institutions	Northwestern UCLA University of Washington
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Suits

Tiebout is frequently associated with the concept of foot voting, that is, physically moving to another jurisdiction where policies are closer to one's ideologies, instead of voting to change a government or its policies.

Major publications

• Tiebout, C. (1956). "A pure theory of local expenditures". Journal of Political Economy. 64 (5): 416–424. doi:10.1086/257839. S2CID 10281240.
• Tiebout, C. (1956). "Exports and regional economic growth". Journal of Political Economy. 64 (2): 160–164. doi:10.1086/257771. S2CID 153430854.
• Tiebout, C. (1960). "Community income multipliers: a population growth model". Journal of Regional Science. 2 (1): 75–84. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1960.tb00836.x.
• Tiebout, C. (1961). "An economic theory of fiscal decentralization". NBER, public finances, needs, sources, and utilization. Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 79–96.
• Tiebout, C.; Hansen, W. L. (1963). "An intersectoral flows analysis of the California economy". Review of Economics and Statistics. 45 (4): 409–418. doi:10.2307/1927925. JSTOR 1927925.