Introduction

This Journal of Bioeconomics Special Issue celebrates the life and accomplishments of Gordon Tullock (February 13, 1922–November 3, 2014), who was instrumental in establishing the Journal of Bioeconomics and was one of the founders of the discipline. He also deserves much of the credit for public choice theory and the theory of rent-seeking. We present ten tribute papers and three bioeconomics papers—from scholars in Canada,China, Norway, Singapore, and the US—in his honor.