TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tullock Gordon
AU  - Rowley Charles Kershaw
TI  - The rent-seeking society
T2  - The selected works of Gordon Tullock
SN  - 0865975248
AV  - HB401 
U1  - 330.01/2 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Indianapolis, Ind.
PB  - Liberty Fund
KW  - Rent Economic theory
KW  - Social choice
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Rent seeking : an overview.  Rent seeking : the problem of definitions ; Rent seeking -- 2. More on efficient rent seeking.  Efficient rent-seeking revisited ; Back to the bog ; Another part of the swamp ; Still somewhat muddy : a comment -- 3. The environments of rent seeking.  Rent seeking as a negative-sum game ; Industrial organization and rent seeking in dictatorships -- Transitional gains and transfers ; Rents and rent-seeking ; Why did the industrial revolution occur in England? ; Rent seeking and tax reform ; Rent-seeking and the law ; Excise taxation in the rent-seeking society -- 4. The cost of rent seeking.  The costs of rent seeking : a metaphysical problem ; Rents, ignorance, and ideology ; Efficient rent seeking, diseconomies of scale, public goods, and morality ; Are rents fully dissipated? ; Where is the rectangle? ; Which rectangle? -- 5. Exchanges and contracts -- 6. Future directions for rent-seeking research
ER  -