Talk:Charles Tiebout

Club goods and competition between political entities
Tiebout did a lot of seminal work with club goods and advancing a theory of political competition for within a larger meta-polity that allows free movement of its' citizens. This WP stub article on Tiebout, as of December 2009, has nothing about this.

I recently read a piece that summarizes Tiebout's contributions nicely, which could perhaps form the basis for an addition to the article.

"William Voegeli"

"The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm: California taxpayers don’t get much bang for their bucks."

"In 1956, the economist Charles Tiebout provided the framework that best explains why people vote with their feet. The “consumer-voter,” as Tiebout called him, challenges government officials to “ascertain his wants for public goods and tax him accordingly.” Each jurisdiction offers its own package of public goods, along with a particular tax burden needed to pay for those goods. As a result, “the consumer-voter moves to that community whose local government best satisfies his set of preferences.” In selecting a jurisdiction, the mobile consumer-voter is, in effect, choosing a club to join based on the benefits that it offers and the dues that it charges."

"America’s federal system allows, at the state level, for 50 different clubs to join. At first glance, the states seem to differ between those that bundle numerous high-quality public benefits with high taxes and those that offer packages of low benefits and low taxes."

That's from the Autumn 2009 issue of City Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, available at. N2e (talk) 15:17, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

I think this biography of Tiebout should be improved upon by giving a general overview of his papers hyperlinking them to the actually wikipedia article that discusses them. Tiebout's work is quite fascinating and can be applied in a variety of topics even in today's world so giving people a least a general taste of his work here would be most beneficial at least in my personal opinion. I have only focused more on Tiebout's work in his theory on Municipalities in regards to the citizens right to voice and voting with their feet. Jamescz94 (talk) 02:39, 16 March 2015 (UTC)