IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/evoice/v4y2007i2n3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Garrison America

Author

Listed:
  • Bowles Samuel
  • Jayadev Arjun

Abstract

Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev estimate that America devotes about a quarter of its labor force to conflicts over dividing up the pie rather than producing it--far more than other nations. Inequality may be among the reasons.

Suggested Citation

  • Bowles Samuel & Jayadev Arjun, 2007. "Garrison America," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 4(2), pages 1-7, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:4:y:2007:i:2:n:3
    DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1253
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2202/1553-3832.1253
    Download Restriction: For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2202/1553-3832.1253?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mehrdad Vahabi, 2011. "Appropriation, violent enforcement, and transaction costs: a critical survey," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 147(1), pages 227-253, April.
    2. Vincent Geloso & Vadim Kufenko, 2017. "The Demand for ‘Guard Labour’: Another Explanation," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(3), pages 373-381, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:4:y:2007:i:2:n:3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.degruyter.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.