An article in the Economist on the work of the late Nobel Laureate James Buchanan made the

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An article in the Economist on the work of the late Nobel Laureate James Buchanan made the following observation: "It was important ... to understand the ways that government could fail systematically."
a. What does government failure mean in this context? How does public choice theory help us to understand how government could fail systematically?
b. The same article notes that "rent-seeking is a very useful concept to have around when thinking about policy." What is rent seeking? Why is the concept useful when thinking about policy?
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Microeconomics

ISBN: 9780135952955

8th Edition

Authors: Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O Brien

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