More government or less government? Further thoughts for promoting the government

Journal of Economic Issues

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 803-822

  Lin, Brian Chi Ang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate hegemony; Government; Institutional change; Rent seeking; The iron triangle

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249116234     PISSN: 00213624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2008.11507180     Document Type: Article

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