Optimal Rent-Seeking Group

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghack Lee
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Costs And Benefits

This note characterizes rent-seeking competition under the possibility of cooperation between rent seekers. Rational individuals are shown either to form a group to fight for the rent or not, depending upon costs and benefits of group formation. In the normative respect, group formation by rent seekers turns out to reduce social wastes resulting from rent-seeking competition.

scholarly journals The anti deflation bias

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Philipp Bagus
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Endowment Effect ◽  
Availability Heuristic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Money Illusion ◽  
Psychological Concepts

AbstractDeflation is widely feared and opposed. This paper provides arguments to explain the anti-deflationary bias. It is argued that governments favour inflation, that the main deflation theories have influenced negatively the public opinion on deflation, and that rent-seeking behaviour and group formation explains why the opposition to deflationary redistribution is stronger than the opposition to inflationary redistribution. Moreover, psychological concepts, such as anchoring, the endowment effect or the availability heuristic have contributed to the fear of deflation by causing a money illusion and a equalisation of deflation and recession.

Competitive-share group formation in rent-seeking contests

Public Choice ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 83 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Hwan Baik ◽  
Jason F. Shogren
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Rent Seeking

scholarly journals Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in a facultatively social thrips

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James DJ Gilbert ◽  
Alice Wells ◽  
Stephen J Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Reproductive Skew ◽  
Behavioural Ecology ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Reproductive Competition ◽  
Ovarian Activation ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Breeding Resources

Costs and benefits of group living are a fundamental topic in behavioural ecology. Resource availability affects individuals' breeding prospects alone and in groups, as well as how reproduction is distributed within groups ("reproductive skew"). Here, we provide correlational evidence in facultatively social thrips that breeding resources are associated with (1) whether solitary or social living is favoured, and (2) the degree of ovarian skew.Dunatothrips aneurae(Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) cooperatively build silk "domiciles" on Australian acacias, feeding exclusively from internal phyllode surfaces. Per capita productivity scaled differently with group size depending on domicile volume - females in small domiciles did better alone than in groups, whereas in large domiciles single and group-nesting females did equally well. Ovarian dissections revealed that in small domiciles some females were nonreproductive, indicating ovarian (i.e. reproductive) skew. Skew increased as domicile size decreased and group size increased. Breeders had smaller oocyte volume in smaller domiciles, especially those containing nonreproductives. These findings suggest group formation and reproductive skew inD. aneuraemay be influenced by reproductive competition for breeding resources. Nonreproductive females in small domiciles may be reproductively suppressed, subfertile, or waiting to reproduce. We speculate they may avoid eviction by contributing as "helpers" to domicile maintenance.

scholarly journals The costs and benefits of multicellular group formation in algae*

Evolution ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 1296-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania E. Kapsetaki ◽  
Stuart A. West
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Costs And Benefits

Dating and Explaining Soapstone Vessels: A Comment on Truncer

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Sassaman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
North America ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Eastern Woodlands ◽  
Radiometric Data

A recent paper by Truncer (2004) perpetuates the recalcitrant misconception that soapstone vessel technology uniformly predates the inception of pottery across eastern North America. Whereas soapstone vessels indeed preceded the local adoption of pottery in limited areas, the bulk of stratigraphic and independent radiometric data supports the conclusion that soapstone vessels either accompanied or postdated the inception of pottery in many parts of the Eastern Woodlands. I reiterate here my criticism of benchmark studies that have been uncritically accepted to support the greater antiquity of soapstone. Given the coincidence of pottery and soapstone in many areas of the Eastern Woodlands, any explanation for the use of soapstone vessels must consider the relative costs and benefits of alternative container technology. Moreover, evidence for use of soapstone vessels in mortuary contexts, caches, and in locations far from geological sources of soapstone suggests that their significance resided not simply in the domestic economy of nut processing, as suggested by Truncer, but in the political economy of group formation and alliance.

Using the research on intergroup conflict in nonhuman animals to help inform patterns of human intergroup conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda R. Ridley ◽  
Melanie O. Mirville
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Animal Groups ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

Abstract There is a large body of research on conflict in nonhuman animal groups that measures the costs and benefits of intergroup conflict, and we suggest that much of this evidence is missing from De Dreu and Gross's interesting article. It is a shame this work has been missed, because it provides evidence for interesting ideas put forward in the article.

Sulfhydryl bond formation is a prerequisite for proper cycling of centrosomes and chromosomes in mammalian tissue culture cells

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 342-343
Author(s):  
Heide Schatten ◽  
Neidhard Paweletz ◽  
Ron Balczon
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Culture ◽  
Cell Cycle Progression ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Sulfhydryl Group ◽  
Mammalian Tissue ◽  
Mitotic Chromosomes ◽  
Microtubule Network ◽  
Culture Cells ◽  
Tissue Culture Cells ◽  
Transmission Electron

To study the role of sulfhydryl group formation during cell cycle progression, mammalian tissue culture cells (PTK2) were exposed to 100¼M 2-mercaptoethanol for 2 to 6 h during their exponential phase of growth. The effects of 2-mercaptoethanol on centrosomes, chromosomes, microtubules, membranes and intermediate filaments were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by immunofluorescence microscopy (IFM) methods using a human autoimmune antibody directed against centrosomes (SPJ), and a mouse monoclonal antibody directed against tubulin (E7). Chromosomes were affected most by this treatment: premature chromosome condensation was detected in interphase nuclei, and the structure in mitotic chromosomes was altered compared to control cells. This would support previous findings in dividing sea urchin cells in which chromosomes are arrested at metaphase while the centrosome splitting cycle continues. It might also support findings that certairt-sulfhydryl-blocking agents block cyclin destruction. The organization of the microtubule network was scattered probably due to a looser organization of centrosomal material at the interphase centers and at the mitotic poles.

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