Introduction, by Karel Čapek.--The period of princes and kings, by V. Chaloupecký.--The heritage of the Bohemian reformation, by J. L. Hromádka.--The Habsburgs and Czechs at the period of the reformation and counter-reformation, by František Hrubý.--The spirit of modern Czechoslovak...

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...