Table of Contents

Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview.- Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview.- Regulation and Protection.- The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation.- The Social Costs of Monopoly Power.- Misleading Calculations of The Social Costs of Monopoly Power.- Declining Industries and Political-Support Protectionist Motives.- Domestic Politics, Foreign Interests, and International Trade Policy.- Protection for Sale.- Economic Development and Growth.- The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.- Foreign aid and rent-seeking.- The political economy of coffee, dictatorship, and genocide.- Why Is Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth?.- Political culture and economic decline.- Institutions and the Resource Curse.- The King Never Emigrates.- Immigration as a challenge to the Danish welfare state?.- Political and Legal Institutions.- Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising.- Rent extraction and rent creation in the economic theory of regulation.- Rigging the lobbying process: An application of the all-pay auction.- Caps on Political Lobbying.- Inverse Campaigning.- On the efficient organization of trials.- Legal expenditure as a rent-seeking game.- Rent-seeking through litigation: adversarial and inquisitorial systems compared.- Comparative Analysis Of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach.- Institutions and history.- Rent Seeking, Noncompensated Transfers, and Laws of Succession.- A model of institutional formation within a rent seeking environment.- The 2002 Winter Olympics scandal: Rent-seeking and committees.- Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society.- Efficient Transactors or Rent- Seeking Monopolists? The Rationale for Early Chartered Trading Companies.- The open constitution and its enemies: Competition, rent seeking, and the rise of the modern state.- Illegal Economic Activities and Purges in a Soviet-Type Economy: A Rent-Seeking Perspective.- Rent seeking and taxation in the Ancient Roman Empire.- The Firm.- “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint.- Workers as Insurance: Anticipated Government Assistance and Factor Demand.- Rent Seeking and Rent Dissipation in State Enterprises.- Discouraging Rivals: Managerial Rent-Seeking and Economic Inefficiencies.- The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets: Divisional Rent-Seeking and Inefficient Investment.- Allies as rivals: internal and external rent seeking.- Efficiency Wages Versus Insiders and Outsiders.- Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership.- Inside versus outside ownership: a political theory of the firm.- Societal Relations.- Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games.- A Signaling Explanation for Charity.- Competition for Sainthood and the Millennial Church.- Publishing as prostitution? — Choosing between one’s own ideas and academic success.- Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society.- Political economy and political correctness.