Subseries 5: Center for Study of Public Choice

Containers:

Box 250-265, 541, 543

Scope and content:

This subseries contains annual reports, conference information, grants, planning documents, board meeting minutes, and correspondence relating the Center for Study of Public Choice, an academic unit founded at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1968. The Center was moved to George Mason University in July 1983 and continues operations there as of 2023. The subseries contains correspondence and planning documents from multiple directors of the Center, including Robert Tollison, David Levy, Mark Crain, and others. There are also materials relating to the Public Choice Society prior to Jo Ann Burgess' time as the Public Choice Society administrator, approximately 2003. The subseries is arranged chronologically.

Betty Tillman was the administrative director of the Center in the 1990s and 2000s, and many Center materials can be found in in Series 6: Betty Tillman papers, especially in Subseries 1: Correspondence and Subseries 2: Office administration. Center tasks were also sometimes a part of the duties of Jo Ann Burgess, and some Center material can be found in Series 7: Jo Ann Burgess papers, especially Subseries 1: Correspondence and Subseries 2: Office administration.

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