40 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON RENT SEEKING 2 by Roger D. Congleton (Editor), Arye L. Hillman (Editor), Kai A. Konrad (Editor) ( 9783540791850 )

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Title:

40 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON RENT SEEKING 2
APPLICATIONS: RENT SEEKING IN PRACTICE

By:

Roger D. Congleton (Editor), Arye L. Hillman (Editor), Kai A. Konrad (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£179.99
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ISBN 10:

354079185X

ISBN 13:

9783540791850

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

1 August, 2008

Edition:

2008 ed.

Pages:

815

Description:

This book is a collection of contributions to the theory of rent-seeking, from its very beginning to the present. Researchers working in this field will find it useful to have this text as a reference manual. Volume II deals with rent seeking in practice.

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.

Illustrations:

XIV, 815 p.

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Returns:

Returnable

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