This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

This survey focuses on the efforts, carried out mainly by public choice scholars, to measure
the social cost of rent seeking. The concept, introduced by Gordon Tullock in 1967 and …

Literature on interest groups typically suggests that economic interest groups with large
economic threat potential (conflict capacity) and high organizational capacity are structurally …

In this paper, we present a framework for building a firm's issue‐specific lobbying strategy.
We argue that there are five critical elements of a lobbying strategy and that the major …

Antimicrobial resistances (AMR) present an emerging concern in human and animal health
policy, as well as in water policy as a consequence of the pollution of water resources by …

Economic orthodoxy before 1971 suggested that regulatory intervention could improve on
market outcomes in cases of market power, negative spillover effects, or asymmetric …

Agricultural land plays several functions; it is both an economic resource and a natural,
cultural, and symbolic asset. The multifunctionality of agricultural land may, nevertheless …

This chapter views the theory of rent seeking in the context of governmental regulation of
prices and conditions of market entry. Such policies create economic rents for the regulated …

Cet ouvrage est la traduction et l'adaptation francophone de La référence des ouvrages sur
l'analyse économique des décisions publiques. Il en présente de manière synthétique et …

The purpose of this study is to explain the justification for taxing corporate rents as a funding
source for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to calculate a normative corporate …