Rent-Seeking. Zur politischen Theorie des neoklassischen Fundamentalismus

Zur Theorie des F-Zentrums*

Um die bisherigen entgegengesetzt extremen theoretischen Ausgangspositionen von PEKAR (unendlich viele Oszillatoren) und WILLIAMS (ein einziger Oszillator) zu überbrücken, ist es notwendig, die dynamische Kopplung der am Störzentrum lokalisierten Elektronenwellenfunktionen an das Gitter durch physikalisch reale Gittereigenschwingungen zu beschreiben. Die bei der Kopplung mitspielenden Eigenschw...

Zur Theorie der Nobili’schen Farbenringe

Theorie Des Lexikons

This paper compares how object clitics combine and which clitics are chosen under restricted circumstances in six Romance languages. I will show that clitic sequences form a morphological unit with a fixed order of clitics. For each case, the optimal sequence results from interacting constraints on the morphology and phonology of clitic sequences within an Optimality Theoretic account. Furtherm...

Rent-Seeking and Innovation

Innovations and their adoption are the keys to growth and development. Innovations are less socially useful, but more profitable for the innovator, when they are adopted slowly and the innovator remains a monopolist. For this reason, rent-seeking, both public and private, plays an important role in determining the social usefulness of innovations. This paper examines the political economy of in...

Inuencing rent-seeking contests

This paper shows that a policy that uniformly increases contestants’ e¤ort costs can lead to an increase in total e¤ort. In asymmetric settings, this “levels the playing …eld”and therefore encourages weaker players (who otherwise would have stayed out) to enter. Paradoxically, a contest designer whose only objective is to maximize total e¤ort may thus wish to make rent-seeking “more di¢ cult.” ...