All Posts Tagged With: "rent extraction"
How Nineteenth-Century Americans Responded to Government Corruption
James Rolph Edwards is an associate professor of economics at Montana State University-Northern. From its origin as a distinct secular scientific discipline with the French Physiocratic school in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the British classical school that followed, economics had a pro-market, limited-government orientation. Indeed, intellectual historians and political philosophers often refer [...]
1Apr2004 | James Rolph Edwards | 2 comments | ContinuedMoney for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion by Fred McChesney
Harvard University Press • 1997 • 230 pages • $35.00 Roger Meiners is a professor of law and economics at the University of Texas-Arlington and senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center. As F. A. Hayek explained in his introduction to The Road to Serfdom, a half-century ago the future of the world was [...]
1Apr1998 | Roger E. Meiners | 0 comments | Continued-
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