The Grabbing Hand(Updated) Government Pathologies and Their Cures by Andrei Shleifer, RobertW. Vishny Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01014-7, ISBN: 0-674-01014-0 " In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such predatory policies--described in this book as the grabbing hand of the state--entrepreneurship lingers and economies stagn ..."
Privatizing Russia(Reprint) (MIT Press) by Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, RobertW. Vishny Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1997 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52228-1, ISBN: 0-262-52228-4 "Privatizing Russia offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the fall of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of the Russian industry privately owned, a rapidly rising stock market, and 40 million Russians owning company shares. The authors, all k ..."
The Grabbing Hand Government Pathologies and Their Cures by Andrei Shleifer, RobertW. Vishny Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-35887-4, ISBN: 0-674-35887-2 " In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such predatory policies--described in this book as the grabbing hand of the state--entrepreneurship lingers and economies stagn ..."
Privatizing Russia(2nd Edition) by Maxim Boycko, RobertVishny, Andrei Shleifer Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1995 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02389-4, ISBN: 0-262-02389-X "Honorable Mention in the category of Economics in the 1995 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc."
