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”.
He was Professor of Economics and Geography at the University of Washington.
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.
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