Nicolaus Tideman
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T. Nicolaus Tideman (born August 11, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Reed College in 1965 and his PhD. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969. His academic interests include taxation of land, voting theory, and political philosophy. In 1987, he proposed a voting system called Ranked Pairs, which is a Condorcet method. He is an associate of the Earth Rights Institute.