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Liberals Must Wage War on Rent-Seeking

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Politics with romance

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Should We Vote in Non-Deterministic Elections?

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See: North et al (2009) for definition of "natural state"

<div class="md"><p>See: North et al (2009) for definition of &quot;natural state&quot;</p>
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The Violence Trap: A Political-Economic Approach to the Problems of Development

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Bootleggers, Baptists, and Ballots

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NBER working paper: Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital

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Carl Schmitt and the Origins of Friedrich Hayek's Thought on Rent-Seeking

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Jeremy Horpedahl - Why Do Baptists Need Bootleggers?

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I asked ChatGPT to write songs about Public Choice...

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A Public Choice Examination of the Inflationary Crisis

"Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else." - Jim Buchanan

"Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy."

- *The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism*

<div class="md"><p>&quot;Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy.&quot;</p>

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<li><em>The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism</em></li>
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David D. Friedman on Special Interest Politics

"Every fault of consumers is worse in voters." - Michael Munger

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Public Choice Economist

Capitalism and Freedom Colloquium: Part One - "Is Capitalism Sustainable?" (Dr. Michael Munger)

Rethinking Regulatory Capture

The Essential James Buchanan

The power of public choice in law and economics

Bootleggers and Baptists in ‘Yellowstone’

Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

All Power To The Imagination #14 - Coasian Class Conflict with Cool Cat Nathan Goodman

Coasian Class Conflict with Nathan Goodman

These Laws Let Your Competitors Decide When Your Business is “Needed”

Public Choice and Statecraft in the Euro Crisis

Bootleggers and Baptists Go Digital

I am researching on Net Neutrality and how different public choice theories apply to what happened. The three concepts I have down are rent seeking (lobbying), regulatory capture (revolving door), and finally Bootleggers and Baptists. The first two I believe I can find scholarly work to back it up. But the last one I just need help clearing up how it applies to technology companies not wanting Net Neutrality regulations to disappear. Of course it's for self interest but can someone example who the bootleggers and who the Baptists would be in this situation? Also could someone explain what was trying to be accomplished with Net Neutrality? My professor just raised her voice thinking it would get the message across clearer which clearly it just confused me more.

If I need to clarify on anything please let me know.

<div class="md"><p>I am researching on Net Neutrality and how different public choice theories apply to what happened. The three concepts I have down are rent seeking (lobbying), regulatory capture (revolving door), and finally Bootleggers and Baptists. The first two I believe I can find scholarly work to back it up. But the last one I just need help clearing up how it applies to technology companies not wanting Net Neutrality regulations to disappear. Of course it&#39;s for self interest but can someone example who the bootleggers and who the Baptists would be in this situation? Also could someone explain what was trying to be accomplished with Net Neutrality? My professor just raised her voice thinking it would get the message across clearer which clearly it just confused me more.</p>

<p>If I need to clarify on anything please let me know.</p>
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I had several questions about how different Public Choice theories apply to Net Neutrality.

Not-So-Unlikely Coalitions: “Bootleggers and Baptists” are alive and well in Arkansas

The political economy of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Don Boudreaux on Buchanan

Why Government Fails and Why Ideas Matter

Was Karl Marx a Public-Choice Theorist?