Ulysses and the Rent-Seekers: The Benefits and Challenges of Constitutional Constraints on Leviathan
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- Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, 2004. "Ulysses and the Rent-Seekers: The Benefits and Challenges of Constitutional Constraints on Leviathan," Advances in Austrian Economics, in: The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy, pages 245-278, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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Keywords
rent-seeking; constitutions; institutions; self-interest; Prisoners' Dilemma; constraints;All these keywords.
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- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-REG-2005-04-16 (Regulation)
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