How Unpleasant a Result? A Comment on Amegashie

In: Public choice, Band 102, Heft 3-4, S. 365-367

Abstract

A comment on J. A. Amegashie's "The Number of Rent-Seekers and Aggregate Rent-Seeking Expenditures: An Unpleasant Result" (1999). Questions are raised regarding the amount of rent-seeking that actually takes place in the proposed model, how it varies with number of participants, & the practicality of the reward structure.