Producers and Predators
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This paper explores a series of general-equilibrium models in which people can choose to be either producers or predators, and in which producers can allocate their resources either to production or to guarding their production against predators. The analysis shows how the ratio of predators to producers and the social cost of predation depend on the technology of predation, on the interpersonal distribution of productive resources, and in an fundamental way on whether the decision to allocate resources to guarding against predators is made individually or collectively.Download Info
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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 6499.Length:
Date of creation: Jun 1999
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Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:6499
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Keywords:Other versions of this item:
- Herschel I. Grossman, 1998. "Producers and Predators," Working Papers 98-6, Brown University, Department of Economics.
- D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
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