ISBN: 9783642098055 - 40 years of research on rent seeking 1: theory of rent seeking (5 Ergebnisse)

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. The entire knowledge on rent seeking in two volumesVolume I provides access to the most significant contributions to the theory of rent seeking An indispensable compendium of papers that can be used as a quick reference manual on this topic.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1 | Theory of Rent Seeking | Roger D. Congleton (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xiv | Englisch | 2010 | Springer | EAN 9783642098055 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The last survey of the rent-seeking literature took place more than a decade ago. Since that time a great deal of new research has been published in a wide variety of journals, covering a wide variety of topics. The scope of that research is such that very few researchers will be familiar with more than a small part of contemporary research, and very few libraries will be able to provide access to the full breadth of that research. This two-volume collection provides an extensive overview of 40 years of rent-seeking research. The volumes include the foundational papers, many of which have not been in print for two decades. They include recent game-theoretic analyses of rent-seeking contests and also appHcations of the rent-seeking concepts and methodology to economic regulation, international trade policy, economic history, poUtical com petition, and other social phenomena. The new collection is more than twice as large as any previous collection and both updates and extends the earlier surveys. Volume I contains previously published research on the theory of rent-seeking contests, which is an important strand of contemporary game theory. Volume II contains previously pubHshed research that uses the theory of rent-seeking to an alyze a broad range of public policy and social science topics. The editors spent more than a year assembling possible papers and, although the selections fill two large volumes, many more papers could have been included.…