The Political Economy of Suppressed Markets: Controls, Rent Seeking and Interest-Group Behaviour in the Indian Sugar and Cement Industries

by Shyam J. Kamath

This book focuses on the negative effects of planned price controls and regulation in generating an underground economy of "black markets," rent seeking behavior, and other directly unproductive activities. The author presents econometric models of these effects in partially suppressed and completely suppressed markets.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002EK2YXA
• ISBN13: 9780195626377
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.8"