Contributions

  • Vishny, Robert W. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing74174

Classifications

  • DDC338.9
  • LCCHD3850 .S5 1998

Description

In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. The authors of this collection of essays describe many of these pathologies of a grabbing hand government and examine their consequences for growth.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The grabbing hand: government pathologies and their curesHarvard University Press1998-01-01

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