Filip Palda: In memoriam

Filip Palda, an economist, frequent Public Choice contributor, and specialist in electoral rules and tax policy, died on August 24, 2017. He was a faculty member at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) in Québec and Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute until his death. Palda’s contributions to economics and public choice are well known to the readers of Public Choice. Here and elsewhere, he argued that campaign spending limits act as barriers to entry into the political arena, and elaborated on the deadweight welfare loss resulting from tax evasion. He also embraced the role of public intellectual and contrarian, seeking to popularize public choice concepts, notably in Québec.