Authors:Roger D. Congleton, Arye L. Hillman, Kai A. Konrad,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: seeking, rent, theory, research, years
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 2008-09-11
List price: $229.00
ISBN-10: 3540791817
ISBN-13: 9783540791812
The two-volume set 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking provides a new, extensive collection of significant academic research on rent seeking, from its beginning to the present. It includes a number of papers that have long been out of print and many other papers from journals that few libraries or scholars will own. Researchers in the field of rent seeking will find it useful to have this collection of texts as a reference manual. The introduction provides a thorough survey of the literature and summarizes the papers included in the two volumes. The focus of Volume I is on conceptional and
Authors:Roger D. Congleton, Arye L. Hillman, Kai A. Konrad
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: seeking, rent, practice, applications, research, years
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2008-09-11
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 354079185X
ISBN-13: 9783540791850
The last survey of the rent-seeking literature took place more than a decade ago. Since that time a great deal of new research has been published in a wide variety of journals, covering a wide variety of topics. The breadth of that research is such that very few researchers will be familiar with more than a small part of contemporary research, and very few libraries will be able to provide access to the full breadth of that research. This two-volume collection provides an extensive overview of 40 years of rent-seeking research. The volumes include the foundational papers, many of which have
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Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: china, seeking, rent
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2008-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0203883969
ISBN-13: 9780203883969
In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of the promotion of village and township enterprises by local cadres who wants to maximize revenue. At the same time, the rent-seeking state is also seen as the root of corrupt practices and in the creation of a political market where state assets and authorities are diverted into private interests. Despite the prevalence of rent seeking practices in present day China, no systematic study of the phenomenon across different regions and economic sectors
Author: Ien Ang
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: audience, seeking, desperately
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1991-04-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 041505270X
ISBN-13: 9780415052702
Ang’s ethnographic perspective on the television audience gives new insights into our television culture, with the audience seen not as an object to be controlled, but as an active social subject.
Author: Carol C. Kuhlthau
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Keywords: meaning, seeking
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-10-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1591580943
ISBN-13: 9781591580942
First published in 1993, this book presents a new process approach to library and information services. It gives a detailed description of the model of the information search process (ISP) and a framework for a process approach to library and information services. The author has completed substantial new work that expands the concepts and applications of the user-centered process approach presented in the first edition.
Author: Esther De Waal
Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
Keywords: benedict, way, god, seeking
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-10
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1853113468
ISBN-13: 9781853113468
Author: Dan Caldwell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: world, insecure, security, seeking
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-12-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0742538133
ISBN-13: 9780742538139
Seeking Security in an Insecure World is intended to provide a brief but thorough introduction to contemporary security studies. With clear and lively prose, compelling examples, and solid scholarship, it will engage both undergraduate students of international relations and general readers who wish to gain a better understanding of what security means today and how it can best be achieved.
