Author:
Tullock, Gordon.
Imprint:Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, c2005.
Descriptionxv, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Rent seeking: the problem of definition -- Rent seeking -- Efficient rent-seeking revisited -- Back to the bog -- Another part of the swamp -- Still somewhat muddy: a comment -- Rent seeking as a negative-sum game -- Industrial organization and rent seeking in dictatorships -- Transitional gains and transfers -- Rents and rent-seeking -- Why did the industrial revolution occur in England? -- Rent seeking and tax reform -- Rent-seeking and the law -- The costs of rent seeking: a metaphysical problem -- Rents, ignorance, and ideology -- Efficient rent seeking, diseconomies of scale, public goods, and morality -- Are rents fully dissipated? -- Where is the rectangle? -- Which rectangle? -- Exchanges and contracts -- Future directions for rent-seeking research.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
