Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
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137 – Matt Mitchell on Rent-Seeking and Public Choice
Matt Mitchell is the director and senior research fellow at the Equity Initiative at the Mercatus Center. He joins the show today to talk about rent seeking and how it affects long term economic growth and prosperity. David and Matt also discuss regulatory capture, the rise of patent trolls, and the economics of public choice theory.
Transcript for the episode: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/12172018/macroeconomics-rent-seeking
Matt’s Twitter: @MattMitchell80
Matt’s Mercatus profile: https://www.mercatus.org/matthew-mitchell
Related Links:
*Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
https://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/publications/why-nations-fail-origins-power-prosperity-and-poverty
*The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society* by Anne Krueger
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1808883?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
*Entrepreneurship: Production, Unproductive, and Destructive* by William Baumol
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2937617
*Uncontestable Favoritism* by Matt Mitchell
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3210953
*40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking* by Roger Congleton, Arye Hillman, and Kai Konrad
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540791881
David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth