|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures
Harvard University Press, 1998 Cloth: 978-0-674-35887-4 | Paper: 978-0-674-01014-7 Library of Congress Classification HD3850.S5 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 338.9
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such predatory policies--described in this book as the grabbing hand of the state--entrepreneurship lingers and economies stagnate. See other books on: Government & Business | Government ownership | Political corruption | Privatization | Trade regulation See other titles from Harvard University Press |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Nearby on shelf for Industries. Land use. Labor / Large industry. Factory system. Big business / Industrial policy. The state and industrial organization:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC
Harvard University Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-674-35887-4
Paper: 978-0-674-01014-7
Cloth: 978-0-674-35887-4
Paper: 978-0-674-01014-7
In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such predatory policies--described in this book as the grabbing hand of the state--entrepreneurship lingers and economies stagnate.
The authors of this collection of essays describe many of these pathologies of a grabbing hand government, and examine their consequences for growth. The essays share a common viewpoint that political control of economic life is central to the many government failures that we observe. Fortunately, a correct diagnosis suggests the cures, including the best strategies of fighting corruption, privatization of state firms, and institutional building in the former socialist economies. Depoliticization of economic life emerges as the crucial theme of the appropriate reforms. The book describes the experiences with the grabbing hand government and its reform in medieval Europe, developing countries, transition economies, as well as today's United States.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC
