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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 382.70973
EAN num: 9780521377003
ISBN number: 0521377005
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 458
Printing Date: August 25, 1989
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1783660
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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This book provides a special interest theory of protection, developing a full general equilibrium theory that explains the distribution of income with goods markets, factor markets, lobbies, political parties, and voters all pursuing their self interest. This probabilistic voting model shows how well-organized groups can use seemingly irrational government policies to exploit poorly organized groups. Given rational predatory behavior between these groups, protection or any other redistributive policy that improves the chances of election of a party increases political efficiency. This can create an economic grey hole, conditions under which an entire economy can disappear into lobbying. Paradoxically, the tariff rates accompanying an economic grey hole are very low. The economic waste is confined to lobbying costs. The book contains both theoretical and empirical work explaining protection in the United States (1900-1988) and levels of protection in about sixty foreign countries in the 1980s.
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This is a fine book, easily the most formally sophisticated model of its kind. The idea is to formalize political economy, getting beyond stale ideological discussions, and instead plop down an entire political subsystem in the middle of a standard (if simplistic) general equilibrium economic model. Groups allocate resources between economic and political activity; parties position themselves to gather financial support as well as votes. The economic and political consequences of their mutual decisions play out in a minimax general equilibrium fashion. Repays detailed study.
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