Editor's note

Beginning with the first issue next year Public Choice is once again expand- ing, specifically to nine issues. To get the bad news over first, there will be an increase in subscription price to $29.50, but this is only slightly more than a simple inflation adjustment of our present price.

For many of my readers the idea of having nine issues to read will in and

of itself be bad news. In practice, however, what we are doing is expanding

the mathematics section sharply while making only modest changes in the rest of the journal. There will be three volumes each year, each with three

issues. The third of these issues will be a mathematics issues edited by Peter Aranson and involves a considerable increase in the volume of

mathematics articles we will carry but Peter assures me that he can do this without lowering the quality. Of the six remaining issues, one will be the special conference issue reporting Carnegie-Mellon's annual conference on Public Choice and as usual edited by Alan Meltzer. I will continue editing the remaining five. In my case there will be no reduction in the quality of

the articles but I propose to expand the scope a little. I have restricted the scope of Public Choice in the past by leaving out articles in classical public

finance. Granted the close relation of public choice and public finance, it will be possible, with somewhat more space, to deal a little more with tradi- tional public finance topics. I also propose to admit rather more articles

in the economics of the law.

Gordon Tullock Editor