X-efficiency, rent-seeking and social costs

The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society

2008 • 5,452 citations

Allocative efficiency vs. X-Efficiency

1966 • 2,782 citations

Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society

1982 • 2,706 citations

Efficient Rent Seeking

2001 • 2,115 citations

The American Economic Review

2011 • 1,953 citations

WESTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL

1970 • 1,533 citations

RENT SEEKING: A SURVEY

1982 • 791 citations

The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft

2008 • 771 citations

Raising Rivals’ Costs

2015 • 742 citations

Monopoly and Resource Allocation

1995 • 705 citations

Productivity growth, scale economies, and capacity utilization in US railroads, 1955-74.

1981 • 476 citations

Beyond Economic Man. A New Foundation for Microeconomics.

1976 • 348 citations

The Xistence of X-Efficiency

1976 • 337 citations

Journal of Political Economy

2016 • 282 citations

New Developments in the Analysis of Market Structure

1986 • 265 citations

A Branch of Economics is Missing Micro-Micro Theory

2016 • 261 citations

Property Rights, Transaction Costs, and X-Efficiency: An Essay in Economic Theory

1983 • 252 citations

The Social Costs of Monopoly Power

1978 • 250 citations

The Regulation Game: Strategic Use of the Administrative Process

1979 • 164 citations

On the Basic Proposition of X-Efficiency Theory

1978 • 141 citations

Recent Developments in Oligopoly Theory

1982 • 120 citations

An Assessment of X-Efficiency Gained Through Competition

1977 • 119 citations

Aspects of the X-Efficiency Theory of the Firm

1975 • 117 citations

Allocative Efficiency, X-Efficiency and the Measurement of Welfare Losses

1972 • 96 citations

Economic Performance in Regulated and Unregulated Environments: A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Railroads

1981 • 71 citations

The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation: Posner Reconsidered

1985 • 69 citations

Allocative Efficiency, X-Efficiency and the Measurement of Welfare Losses

1969 • 62 citations

Competition and X-Efficiency: Reply

1973 • 61 citations

Property Rights and X-Efficiency: Comment

1983 • 48 citations

Managerial Rents and Outside Recruitment in the Coasian Firm

1988 • 37 citations

Strategic Competition and the Persistence of Dominant Firms: a Survey

1986 • 34 citations

Monopoly, X-Efficiency and the Measurement of Welfare Loss

1972 • 26 citations

X-inefficiency and nonpecuniary rewards in a rent-seeking society: A neglected issue in the property rights theory of the firm

1980 • 19 citations

The Estimation of X-Inefficiency in Eighteen Countries

1984 • 12 citations

On Allocative Efficiency, X-Efficiency and the Measurement of Welfare Loss

1971 • 11 citations

Corporate Management, Property Rights and the X-Istence of X-Inefficiency: Reply

1984 • 10 citations

Property Rights and X-Efficiency: Reply

1983 • 8 citations

Corporate Management, Property Rights and the X-Istence of X-Inefficiency

1981 • 7 citations

Keynes and the Economic System

1948 • 2 citations