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137 Matt Mitchell on Rent-Seeking and Public Choice

Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 6 a.m.

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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.

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Transcript for the episode:\\xa0https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/12172018/macroeconomics-rent-seeking

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Matt\\u2019s Twitter: @MattMitchell80

Matt\\u2019s Mercatus profile: https://www.mercatus.org/matthew-mitchell

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Related Links:

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*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

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*The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society* by Anne Krueger

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1808883?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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*Entrepreneurship: Production, Unproductive, and Destructive* by William Baumol

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2937617

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*Uncontestable Favoritism* by Matt Mitchell

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3210953

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*40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking* by Roger Congleton, Arye Hillman, and Kai Konrad

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540791881

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David\\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com

David\\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

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