Efficient Rent-Seeking Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire
Speaking frankly, neither of the editors thinks the situation is that desperate. We feel that there is a logical solution, even if we do not know what it is. The purpose of this volume is to attempt to get economists to turn to the problem and, hopefully, solve the paradox. We present here a substan...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Efficient Rent Seeking
- 3. Long Run Equilibrium and Total Expenditures in Rent-Seeking
- 4. Long Run Equilibrium and Total Expenditures in Rent-Seeking: A Comment
- 5. Rent-Seeking Behavior in the Long Run
- 6. Free Entry and Efficient Rent Seeking
- 7. Back to the Bog
- 8. The Design of Rent-Seeking Competitions
- 9. Rent-Seeking with Non-Identical Players
- 10. Equilibrium Conditions for Efficient Rent Seeking: The Nash-Cournot Solution
- 11. Conflict and Rent-Seeking Success Functions: Ratio vs. Difference Models of Success
- 12. Rationing and Rent Dissipation in the Presence of Heterogeneous Individuals
- 13. Efficient Rent-Seeking Under Varying Cost Structures
- 14. Investments in Rent-Seeking
- 15. Rent-seeking for Pure Public Goods
- 16. Rent-Seeking, Rent-Defending, and Rent Dissipation
- 17. Collective Rent Dissipation
- 18. A General Analysis of Rent-Seeking Games
- 19. More Efficient Rent-Seeking — A Münchhausen Solution
- 36. The Costs of Rent-Seeking: A Metaphysical Problem
- 20. Still Somewhat Muddy: A Comment
- 21. Cooperation by Credible Threats: On the Social Costs of Transfer Contests Under Uncertainty
- 22. Effort Levels in Contests: The Public Good Prize Case
- 23. More on More Efficient Rent Seeking and Strategic Behavior in Contests: Comment
- 24. Modelling Rent-Seeking Contests
- 25. Cooperative Rent-Seeking
- 26. Dynamic Rent-Seeking Games
- 27. The Solution to the Tullock Rent-Seeking Game when R > 2: Mixed-Strategy Equilibria and Mean Dissipation Rates
- 28. The Reluctant Gamesperson — A Comment on Baye, Kovenock and de Vries
- 29. The Specification of the Probability Functions in Tullock’s Rent-Seeking Contest
- 30. Tullock’s Rent-Seeking Contest with a Minimum Expenditure Requirement
- 31. Rent-Seeking with Asymmetric Valuations
- 32. The Incidence of Overdissipationin Rent-Seeking Contests
- 33. The Reformer’s Dilemma
- 34. Orchestrating Rent Seeking Contests
- 35. Gordon Tullock: Master of the Muck and Mire