This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans' ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international syst…
Guy Standing, best-selling author of The Precariat, reveals the devastating effects of the construction of a global market economy. The Corruption of Capitalism shows why, in the interests of democracy and our common wealth, the rise of rentier capitalism must be resisted. If it…
The concepts of rents and rent-seeking are central to any discussion of the processes of economic development. Yet conventional models of rent-seeking are unable to explain how it can drive decades of rapid growth in some countries, and at other times be associated with spectacu…
This study is a critique of the neoclassical monetarist approach to explaining episodes of high inflation. The monetarist approach is criticized from two perspectives: First, the monetary model employed is deficient in that it does not fully examine the consequences for money ho…
In this thesis, I demonstrate that two variables which are normally used to define data quality--validity and reliability--are insufficient for explaining problems with data quality in developing countries. I demonstrate that a third variable, rent-seeking behavior, needs to be …
Much of the theoretical literature on corruption and economic growth suggests that corruption harms growth, yet the empirical literature is ambiguous. One highly cited paper, Mauro (1995), estimates that corruption has a moderately harmful effect on growth, yet once more recentl…
This research emerged from the belief that merely economic explanations of rent seeking were too narrow and an interdisciplinary approach was needed to understand historical structural factors that contribute to particularistic exchanges. Rent-seeking and particularistic ties ar…
The primary focus of this work is on Nigeria, and why all attempts at economic development since gaining independence from Britain have failed to place its economy on a sustainable trajectory of growth. The operational thesis adduced is that development was, and continues to be …
"Rent-Seeking and Human Capital: How the Hunt for Rents is Changing our Economic and Political Landscape explores the debates around rent seeking and contextualizes it within the capitalist economy. It is vital that the field of economics does a better job of analyzing and makin…
"Rent-Seeking and Human Capital: How the Hunt for Rents is Changing our Economic and Political Landscape explores the debates around rent seeking and contextualizes it within the capitalist economy. It is vital that the field of economics does a better job of analyzing and makin…
A primer on inequality -- Landlords, rents and seekers -- Rent seeking, examples of wasted resources -- Education and the allocation of talent -- The politics of removing rents. "Rent-Seeking and Human Capital: How the Hunt for Rents is Changing our Economic and Political Lands…
