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- catalog abstract ""How much time, money, and other resources do Americans devote to influencing the distribution of wealth? According to David Laband and George McClintock, a conservative estimate of the total amount Americans spend on arranging or preventing forced transfers is more than $2,000 for every man, woman, and child in America." "That's not a statement of the amount forcibly redistributed, but of the amount spent in effecting the forcible transfer of resources. And, as the authors show, this is a very conservative estimate of the deadweight losses associated with the transfer society." "Through an ambitious cataloguing of different categories of expenditures on forced transfers and research into the amounts expended on each one, Laband and McClintock present a more complete picture of the effects of forced transfers than one would get from merely considering the aggregates of federal and state budgets or estimates of the amounts of wealth that change hands through the various forms of "freelance" redistribution, such as insurance fraud, theft, or extortion." "This book both poses problems and offers solutions to important issues in economics and political science."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12275406.
- catalog contributor b12275407.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""How much time, money, and other resources do Americans devote to influencing the distribution of wealth? According to David Laband and George McClintock, a conservative estimate of the total amount Americans spend on arranging or preventing forced transfers is more than $2,000 for every man, woman, and child in America." "That's not a statement of the amount forcibly redistributed, but of the amount spent in effecting the forcible transfer of resources. And, as the authors show, this is a very conservative estimate of the deadweight losses associated with the transfer society."".
- catalog description ""Through an ambitious cataloguing of different categories of expenditures on forced transfers and research into the amounts expended on each one, Laband and McClintock present a more complete picture of the effects of forced transfers than one would get from merely considering the aggregates of federal and state budgets or estimates of the amounts of wealth that change hands through the various forms of "freelance" redistribution, such as insurance fraud, theft, or extortion." "This book both poses problems and offers solutions to important issues in economics and political science."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the Problem -- 3. Resource Expenditures to Effect/Prevent Direct Transfers -- 4. Resource Expenditures to Effect/Prevent Indirect Transfers -- 5. Why So Little Observed Rent-Seeking? -- 6. Concluding Comments.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 83 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Transfer society.".
- catalog identifier "1930865104 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "1930865112".
- catalog isFormatOf "Transfer society.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : CATO,".
- catalog relation "Transfer society.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "331.25 21".
- catalog subject "Employee fringe benefits United States.".
- catalog subject "HC110.I5 L265 2001".
- catalog subject "Income distribution United States.".
- catalog subject "Rent United States.".
- catalog subject "Subsidies United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the Problem -- 3. Resource Expenditures to Effect/Prevent Direct Transfers -- 4. Resource Expenditures to Effect/Prevent Indirect Transfers -- 5. Why So Little Observed Rent-Seeking? -- 6. Concluding Comments.".
- catalog title "The transfer society : economic expenditures on transfer activity / David N. Laband and George McClintock.".
- catalog type "text".