The distorted economy /

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Author / Creator:Blomqvist, H. C. (Hans-Christer)
Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Description:xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4836045
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Other authors / contributors:Lundahl, Mats, 1946-
ISBN:033380208X (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Welfare, Government Intervention and Political Economy Some Analytical Tools
  • The Gains from Foreign Trade: The Fundamental Theorem
  • Trade, Distortion and Welfare
  • Instrumental Distortions: Swedish Agricultural Policy
  • Import Substitution in Developing Countries
  • Urban Bias
  • The Apartheid System in South Africa
  • The Socialist Planned Economy: The Price System
  • Eliminated Interest Groups and Collective Action
  • Directly Unproductive Profit Seeking Activities
  • The State as an Interest Group: The Economic Logic of Wielding Power
  • The Predatory State: Haiti and the Dominican Republic
  • From the Perfect Economy to the Predatory State: The Internal Logic of Distortions