The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures - Softcover

Shleifer, Andrei

 
9780674010147: The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674010140 ISBN 13: 9780674010147
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such predatory policies--described in this book as the grabbing hand of the state--entrepreneurship lingers and economies stagnate.

The authors of this collection of essays describe many of these pathologies of a grabbing hand government, and examine their consequences for growth. The essays share a common viewpoint that political control of economic life is central to the many government failures that we observe. Fortunately, a correct diagnosis suggests the cures, including the best strategies of fighting corruption, privatization of state firms, and institutional building in the former socialist economies. Depoliticization of economic life emerges as the crucial theme of the appropriate reforms. The book describes the experiences with the grabbing hand government and its reform in medieval Europe, developing countries, transition economies, as well as today's United States.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Andrei Shleifer is Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Robert Vishny is Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674010140
ISBN 13 
9780674010147
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288
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