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Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert W. Vishny. The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and their Cures. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Table of contents
Abstract
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| Acknowledgments | ix |
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| 1. Perspectives on Government | 1 |
| 2. Princes and Merchants:
European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution | 19 |
| 3. The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth | 53 |
| 4. Why Is Rent Seeking So Costly to Growth? | 81 |
| 5. Corruption | 91 |
| 6. Pervasive Shortages under Socialism | 109 |
| 7. The Politics of Market Socialism | 123 |
| 8. A Theory of Privatization | 137 |
| 9. Politicians and Firms | 151 |
| 10. Privatization in the United States | 183 |
| 11. Government in Transition | 227 |
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| Notes | 254 |
| References | 263 |
| Index | 275 |
