The Grabbing Hand

Government Pathologies and Their Cures

Andrei Shleifer

Robert W. Vishny

    [The Grabbing Hand's] range of materials is impressive: the chapters deal with the growth of European cities before the industrial revolution, corruption in post-Soviet Russia, privatisation in Eastern Europe, local government in the United States, and more. The authors keep technical apparatus to a minimum. By any standard, let alone the debased standard of most modern economics, the essays are lucid and literate.
       --The Economist

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Andrei Shleifer is Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Robert Vishny is Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.