Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and indexes.
Contents:
The policy contest -- Contest rationalization -- Endogenous public policy -- Culture, politicization, and relative rent dissipation -- Lobbying and compromise -- Effort and performance -- Prizes (size and distribution) and efforts -- Asymmetry and corrective public policy -- The social cost of rent seeking when consumer opposition influences monopoly behavior -- Strategic restraint -- Monopoly-price determination -- Privatization -- Migration policy -- Minimum wage -- Tournaments.
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