40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2: Applications: Rent Seeking in Practice (1st ed. 2008)

Synopsis

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 appUcations 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 earUer surveys. Volume I contains previously pubhshed research on the theory of rent-seeking contests, which is an important strand of contemporary game theory. Volume II contains previously published 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.

Copyright:

2008

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ISBN-13:

9783540792475

Related ISBNs:

9783540791850

Publisher:

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Addition:

03/13/24

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No

Language:

English

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Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Mathematics and Statistics, Politics and Government

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Edited by:

Roger D. Congleton

Edited by:

Arye L. Hillman

Edited by:

Kai A. Konrad