edited by Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison, Gordon Tullock.
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Boston, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer US
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1988
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1(XVI, 492 Seiten)
SERIES
Series Title
Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, 1
CONTENTS NOTE
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I Perspectives.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Rent-Seeking Versus Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking Activities.- 3 In Search of Rent-Seeking.- 4 Rents and Rent-Seeking.- II Theoretical Developments.- 5 The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.- 6 Risk-Averse Rent Seekers and the Social Cost of Monopoly Power.- 7 Efficient Rent-Seeking Revisited.- 8 Long-Run Equilibrium and Total Expenditures in Rent-Seeking.- 9 Long-Run Equilibrium and Total Expenditures in Rent-Seeking: A Comment.- 10 Rent-Seeking Behavior in the Long-Run.- 11 Free Entry and Efficient Rent-Seeking.- 12 Back to the Bog.- 13 Life Among the Triangles and Trapezoids.- III Applications.- 14 Dispelling the Disinterest in Deregulation.- 15 Rent Extraction and Rent Creation in the Economic Theory of Regulation.- 16 Ideology, Interest Groups, and the Repeal of the Corn Laws.- 17 Rent-Seeking and Trade Protection.- 18 Voters as Investors: A Rent-Seeking Resolution of the Paradox of Voting.- 19 Committees and Rent-Seeking Effort.- 20 Government and its Bureaucracy: A Bilateral Bargaining Versus a Principal-Agent Approach.- 21 Demand-Revealing, Transfers, and Rent-Seeking.- 22 Competing for Aid.- 23 Managerial Rents and Outside Recruitment in the Coasian Firm.- 24 Optimal Taxation in a Rent-Seeking Environment.- 25 Rent-Seeking and Its Implications for Pollution Taxation.- 26 Privatizing the Commons: An Improvement?.- 27 Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change.- 28 Why Did the Industrial Revolution Occur in England?.- IV Toward Tomorrow.- 29 Agency, Economic Calculation, and Constitutional Construction.- 30 Rent-Seeking in Constitutional Perspective.- 31 Future Directions for Rent-Seeking Research.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In its positive dimension, rent-seeking contributions have provided an important analy- tical perspective from which to understand and to predict the behavior of politicians, interest groups and bureaucrats, the media and the academy within the political market place.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Economic policy.
Economics.
Finance.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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HB401
Book number
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E358
1988
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edited by Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison, Gordon Tullock.