Nicolaus Tideman
T. Nicolaus Tideman (born August 11, 1943 in Chicago , Illinois ) is Professor of Economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University . He graduated from Reed College with a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics in 1965 and earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969. Tideman was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University from 1969 to 1973. From 1970 to 1971 he was on the US President's economic advisory staff. He has been a lecturer at Virginia Tech since 1973, with various visiting professorships at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1979–1980), the University of Buckingham (1985–1986) and the American Institute for Economic Research (1999–2000).
research
Tideman's academic interests include land taxation, electoral theory, and political philosophy . The voting systems Ranked Pairs and CPO-STV go back to him. The main achievement is a criterion that makes a voting method independent of cloning. He is a member of the Earth Rights Institute. His book Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice was published by Ashgate Publishing in November 2006.
An example of clones is the vote to name Canada's Thunder Bay. The population favored Lakehead, 3 proposals were put to the vote. Thunder Bay received 15,870, Lakehead 15,302, and The Lakehead 8,377 votes, so the winner was Thunder Bay.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tideman, Nicolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tideman, T. Nicolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |