The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures

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A lot of these things have a pickup thats like two bananas back-to-back and you can’t get the tiny things that drop under the table for instance. Anything I drop can easily be picked up without bending, or used to get things I can’t reach up high.

show that political interventions result in firms pursuing government officials' goals, which include increasing employment and promoting regional economic development. A specific feature of Russian wealth enclaves is their embeddedness in the vertical of power, which is viewed as a pyramid of mixed residual property rights to competitive assets mainly in the resource sector.The extra clips are fantastic for clipping my reacher to my trolley so I can move around the house with it. I have had 2 of my “Helping hands” (reachers) for over 20 years and they are still going strong, I have been disabled since 1999 and I think these are wonderful. Some studies argue that political connections act as a grabbing hand by extracting political benefits at the expense of shareholder wealth maximization (Shleifer and Vishny, 1994; Frye and Shleifer, 1997). Top entrepreneurs with political connections are characterized and it is shown that their private interests determine the choice in favor of maintaining “closedness” from the national economy and integration into global value chains. Poverty and lack of education have often been pointed out as possible causes for the radicalization of Moroccan youths.

Auriol and Straub (2011); Frye and Shleifer (1997); and Laffont and Tirole (1991) consider Business regulation to be a channel for rent extraction at the expense of efficiency. I have had my grabber for 10 years or more and use it to pick up lightweight items and small logs for my fire.

It’s incredibly useful for so many tasks when you’ve had a hip replacement from picking up things you inevitably drop or pulling socks up. The study underscores TMT’s internal incentives and external factors’ interplay, molding strategic legal engagement. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In the setting of capital structure and product market interactions, our findings support the helping hand view of political connections.

I have used these since 2014 and I’m sure if I treated them better they would last as long as my first one from the hospital did.We apply unconditional fixed-effect Tobit regression estimators on a combined dataset extracted from various sources over the period 2011-2015. In the case of the Washington Consensus priority was given to the private sector and deregulation of the economy meaning a significant reduction in the role of the state.

Corruption and regulation can have ambiguous relationships with entrepreneurship unless you take a careful look at it. The findings enrich upper echelons theory, challenge conventional institutional views and identify moderating factors that deepen the understanding of upper echelons’ influence in legal landscapes. In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms consume national wealth, and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities.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. She’s dropped spoons, small cooking utensils, food items and lots more but this small gadget has and continues to assist her. This study aims to use institutional and upper echelons theories to comprehensively investigate the intricate interplay between TMT legal expertise and firms' adaptive strategies in legal contexts, notably within emerging economies.