POLITICALLY CONTESTABLE RENTS AND TRANSFERS*

Optimal Auction Design

1981 • 6,033 citations

The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society

2008 • 5,452 citations

A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

1983 • 4,186 citations

Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts

1981 • 4,164 citations

A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding

1982 • 3,844 citations

THE WELFARE COSTS OF TARIFFS, MONOPOLIES, AND THEFT

1967 • 2,873 citations

Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society

1982 • 2,706 citations

Directly Unproductive, Profit-Seeking (DUP) Activities

1982 • 1,186 citations

The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation

1975 • 821 citations

RENT SEEKING: A SURVEY

1982 • 791 citations

The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft

2008 • 771 citations

Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs

1985 • 659 citations

The Growth of Government

1980 • 536 citations

The Political Economy of Protection

2013 • 499 citations

Dissipation of contestable rents by small numbers of contenders

1987 • 292 citations

Risk-Averse Rent Seekers and the Social Cost of Monopoly Power

1988 • 209 citations

Seeking Rents by Setting Rents: The Political Economy of Rent Seeking

1987 • 207 citations

Risk-Averse Rent Seekers and the Social Cost of Monopoly Power

1984 • 195 citations

The causes of government expenditure growth: A survey of the U.S. evidence

1985 • 190 citations

Hierarchical structure and the social costs of bribes and transfers

1987 • 128 citations

Economic, legal, and political dimensions of competition

1982 • 125 citations

Lobbying and welfare

1980 • 119 citations

Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking

1985 • 119 citations

Free Entry and Efficient Rent-Seeking

1988 • 109 citations

Risk-Averse Rent Seeking With Shared Rents

1987 • 101 citations

Efficient rents 1 rent-seeking behavior in the long-run

1985 • 85 citations

Transfer seeking and avoidance: On the full social costs of rent seeking

1986 • 84 citations

Long-run equilibrium and total expenditures in rent-seeking: A comment

1984 • 40 citations

Long-Run Equilibrium and Total Expenditures in Rent-Seeking: A Comment

1988 • 39 citations

Rent-Seeking and Trade Policy: An Industry Approach

1986 • 31 citations

Rent-seeking and trade policy: An industry approach

1984 • 23 citations