- Five Stanford MBA Students Honored as...
Business Editors/Education Writers STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002 They have worked for major consulting firms, managed election campaigns, lectured on Chinese painting, and enjoyed salsa ......
- The Right Tools for the Job
The Right Tools for the Job Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale, Joe Sanderson and Glyn Watson Palgrave Macmillan, 55 This volume is the latest from the ......
- The false promise of "full disclosure"
THE ENRON "SCANDAL" has raised several fascinating issues related to disclosing information and potential conflicts of interest. For example, an accounting firm that receives consulting ......
- The paradoxes of online academic work.
L. Shedletsky and J. Aitken. 2001. Communication education 50, no. 3:206-217. Four paradoxes of online academic work are the focus of this article including a ......
- Rice, salmon or sushi? Political competition for...
HEADNOTE This paper describes a simple theoretical model of competing interest groups and uses a modified Cournot model with endogenous policy. The focus is on ......
- Classroom game on the theory of rent seeking:...
1. Introduction Teaching tools are valuable in teaching the often-abstract theoretical models of economics (e.g., Holt 1999). The theory of rent seeking is one of ......
- Spectrum Commons
STATUS: FCC examining petitions for reconsideration of final rules In polite society, dogmatism is a sign of an unsophisticated mind. This might explain the eager ......
- Economic efficiency and the common
law.
Introduction Do legal rules based on the common law in the U.S. result in economically efficient outcomes? The evidence or what there is of it, ......
- Rent-seeking and peak-load pricing of public...
A recent paper by Lee and Wilson (1990) on the effect of rent-seeking on optimal peak-load pricing of public services makes the interesting point that ......
- Internal capital markets and CEO
power.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between the organizational hierarchy at the highest management level and the allocation of internal financial resources within a ......
- ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP, GROWTH AND RENT-SEEKING:...
Progress and Poverty, that memorable work of Henry George, leaves us with three main messages: first, that the rent of land is an egregious contributor ......
- PUBLIC CHOICE ECONOMICS: WHERE IS THERE CONSENSUS?
HEADNOTE Abstract Are public choice scholars' conclusions accepted by rank-and-file economists and political scientists? If not, why not? To answer these questions we use survey ......
- The Economics of Pharmaceutical Price Regulation...
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- We are global business advisers.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock --Justice Arthur Goldberg, 1908-1990 Engage in this thought experiment: The following ......
- Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking
Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking, by Gordon Tullock (Edward Elgar, MA, 2005), p. vii + 163.