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" The rent-seeking society / "
Gordon Tullock ; edited and with an introduction by Charles K. Rowley
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BL
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699073
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b521262
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| Main Entry
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Tullock, Gordon
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The rent-seeking society /\ Gordon Tullock ; edited and with an introduction by Charles K. Rowley
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Indianapolis, Ind. :: Liberty Fund,, [2005]
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, ©2005
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The selected works of Gordon Tullock ;; v. 5
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xv, 327 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0865975248
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: 0865975353
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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1. Rent seeking : an overview. Rent seeking : the problem of definitions ; Rent seeking -- 2. More on efficient rent seeking. Efficient rent-seeking revisited ; Back to the bog ; Another part of the swamp ; Still somewhat muddy : a comment -- 3. The environments of rent seeking. 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 ; Excise taxation in the rent-seeking society -- 4. The cost of rent seeking. 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? -- 5. Exchanges and contracts -- 6. Future directions for rent-seeking research
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Rent (Economic theory)
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Social choice
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330.01/2
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HB401.T7926 2005
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Rowley, Charles K.,1939-2013
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