Efficient Rent-Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire

by Gordon Tullock

Book Overview

Some time ago one of the editors (Gordon Tullock) stumbled on a paradox in the competition for rents. He asked a previous research assistant (William Hunter) to work out some examples and gave a seminar on it. For reasons he cannot recall (but probably bad) he titled his talk 'Efficient Rent Seeking'. As Editor of Public Choice he was able to publish without a referee. Incidentally, The Journal of Political Economy had turned it down on the grounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144194866X
• ISBN13: 9781441948663
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"