Robert’s Rules for a knowledge-creating society

Robert’s Rules for a knowledge-creating society

Robert D. Tollison's astonishing output of books and articles is detailed in our 2010 paper (Crain and Crain 2010). At that time, his publications included 433 articles and books amounting to roughly 40,000 pages. The ow from his pens of many colors continued in the 6 years after that. The anal...

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Published in:Public choice 2017-04, Vol.171 (1/2), p.29-32
Main Authors: Crain, W. Mark, Crain, Nicole V.
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Book industry
Co authorship
Deaths
Economics
Economics and Finance
Editorials
Editors
Feedback
Intellectuals
INVITED EDITORIAL COMMENTARY
Knowledge
Periodicals
Personal profiles
Political Science
Productivity
Public Finance
Public policy
Revisions
Society
United States
Work ethic
Writers
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Summary:Robert D. Tollison's astonishing output of books and articles is detailed in our 2010 paper (Crain and Crain 2010). At that time, his publications included 433 articles and books amounting to roughly 40,000 pages. The ow from his pens of many colors continued in the 6 years after that. The analysis of Tollison's productivity and the factors driving it need not be repeated here. What we think deserves a closer look, and the purpose of this paper, is the Tollison process of knowledge creation. Call it Roberts Rules. Roberts Rules are not right for everyone. And our short list omits a pound of ceteris paribus behind Robert Tollison's vast capacity for knowledge creation. We include behaviors we remember most, the ones that contributed profoundly to our professional development. To borrow a phrase from Hayek, we learned by imitation. We suspect that countless others who were swept up by Tollison's relentless quest for knowledge also learned by imitating these rules. We think they are worth preserving, despite the impossible task of adhering to them as diligently as Tollison did. The knowledge Tollison created is stored for future generations. How he created knowledge is what we try to capture and record here.
ISSN:0048-5829
1573-7101