Springer 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1: Theory of Rent Seeking

Product Description This book is a collection of significant contributions to the theory of rent seeking, from its very beginning to the present. The focus in Volume I is on conceptual and theoretical developments, and the book can be used as a quick reference manual. From the Back Cover The two-volume set 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking provides a new, extensive collection of significant academic research on rent seeking, from its beginning to the present. It includes a number of papers that have long been out of print and many other papers from journals that few libraries or scholars will own. Researchers in the field of rent seeking will find it useful to have this collection of texts as a reference manual. The introduction provides a thorough survey of the literature and summarizes the papers included in the two volumes. The focus of Volume I is on conceptional and theoretical developments.