The article debates the origin of rent in natural-resource based industries (NRBIs) such as fisheries, and how generated can be appro­priated. Norwegian fish harvest­ing industry is used to illustrate arguments. It argued that industry-specific institu­tional framework harvesting positively affects compe­titive forces industry, thereby its economic performance. Fishery management institu­tions ...

The question of women‘s rights in Islam generates huge interest among Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Scholars of feminism are sharply divided on the question of women‘s status in Islam. One group associates Islam with misogyny and gender oppression, while the other celebrates the religion as a liberatory force for women. Remarkably, despite a surge in female educational attainment and conscious...

T o what extent does the separation of powers affect congressional roll call voting behavior? To answer this question, I offer a strategic model of congressional decision making that asserts members of Congress pursue public policy goals when casting roll call votes. From the equilibrium predictions of a formal model, I generate testable hypotheses by computing the expected net amount of sophis...

We present novel results that relate energy and information transfer with sensitivity to initial conditions in chaotic multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. We show the relation among Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, Lyapunov exponents, and upper bounds for the Mutual Information Rate calculated in the Hamiltonian phase space and on bi-dimensional subspaces. Our main result is that the net amount of ...

Class action lawsuits as a vehicle of rent extraction is developed as an extension of political/legislative rent extraction theory. An event study is performed on thirty firms in which a securities class action lawsuit is filed and subsequently resolved by retraction, settlement, or legal verdict. The data set is found to be consistent with rent having been extracted as a result of the class ac...

People are now tightly connected through mobile Internet applications, whether they platform owners, renters, business professionals, or users. The presence of Rent is concealed between owners and renters according to Marx's rent theory. Owners platforms lease out data land charge renters. Similar rent, demonstrates differential rent. However, due the instantaneous replicability flow activities...