Book Review of Pranab Bardhan, Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. PP 306, US$25.00 (Paperback) ISBN 0262524295.

Book Review of Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending:India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947, Columbia University Press, NewYork, NY, and Woodrow Wilson Press, Washington, DC, 2001, 187 pages, ISBN 023112368X, US$49.50(Hardback)

We provide the first theoretical analysis of the effects of human capital use, innovative activity, and patent protection, on economic growth in a model with many regions. In each region, consumers have constant relative risk-aversion preferences, there is no human capital growth, and there are...

The extant literature has paid scant theoretical attention to the tripartite interaction among increasing environmental regulations, the resulting decision by a polluting firm to upgrade its capital stock, and the impact of innovation on this decision. Hence, the authors theoretically analyze...

Queuing mechanisms are commonly used in developing countries and in transition economies to allocate goods characterized by excess demand to citizens. Bribery and favoritism frequently accompany the use of such queuing mechanisms. Therefore, we first analyze a queuing model of resource...