Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking...

Krueger is known in macroeconomics and trade, famously coining the term rent-seeking in a 1974 article. Furthermore, she has frequently criticised the U.S...

economic rent at Economist.com The Art of Rent, a series of seminars at Queen Mary University of London. Rent-Seeking Network Rent-Seeking papers by...

referred to as rent-seeking, adapted from the term and concept introduced by economist David Ricardo in the 19th century. Rent seeking, according to public...

itself Goal seeking Job seeking Rent seeking Seek Limited, an Australian recruitment website Seek, a mobile app made by iNaturalist Seek: Reports from the Edges...

use of a good, service or property Economic rent, any payment in excess of the cost of production Rent-seeking, attempting to increase one's share of existing...

Privilege and Rent Seeking, Springer. Description and chapter-preview links.    • Jagdish N. Bhagwati, 1982. "Directly Unproductive, Profit-Seeking (DUP) Activities...

especially Robert E. Ekelund and Robert D. Tollison, to call mercantilism "a rent-seeking society". To a certain extent, mercantilist doctrine itself made a general...

together with rent creation and rent seeking, determines the extent and distribution of rents. However, the three are distinct and rent extraction is...

concentration, which may better be explained by the non-market force known as "rent-seeking". While the market will bid up compensation for rare and desired skills...

needed] Certain insurance products and practices have been described as rent-seeking by critics.[citation needed] That is, some insurance products or practices...

loss for society. The theory of client politics is related to that of rent-seeking and political failure; client politics "occurs when most or all of the...

in the market, resulting in the formation of new economic rents and creating rent-seeking opportunities for certain market entities. In short, it means...

capitalism is a concept in Marxist and heterodox economics to refer to rent-seeking and exploitation by companies in capitalist systems. The term was developed...

Economists have characterized these regulations as a form of rent-seeking that extracts rents from manufacturers of cars, increases costs for consumers,...

improve the use of land and redirect investment toward productive, non-rent-seeking activities, it could even have a negative dead-weight loss that boosts...

scale). Other nations may become plutocratic through kleptocracy or rent-seeking.[citation needed] Politics portal Aristocracy Banana republic Corporatocracy...

supply and create monopoly rents within the licensed occupation (rent-seeking). The threat of losing these monopoly rents could, in principle, give incentives...

through profiteering by rent seeking using this monopoly or oligopoly. Entrepreneurship and innovative practices which seek to reward risk are stifled...

basketball and football players benefit the athletes' schools (through rent-seeking) at the expense of the athletes. Economists have subsequently characterized...

differing needs, that is especially unproductive for the software industry. Rent-seeking by owners of pharmaceutical patents have also been a particular focus...

generalized network effect of microeconomics. Metcalfe's law Anti-rival good Rent-seeking Free-rider problem David L. Weimer; Aidan R. Vining (2005). Policy Analysis:...

a firm has exclusivity over a market. Hence, the firm can engage in rent seeking behaviors such as limiting output and raising prices because it has no...

publications, he challenges the belief that the elimination of rents, corruption and rent-seeking behaviour as well as democratisation and decentralisation...

economics of tax evasion, design of value added tax, economics of smuggling, rent-seeking by public servants, economics of corruption, tax administration and tax...

potentially more effective copy prevention methods from being developed. Rent-seeking behavior can be incentivized by monopolies, foreign trade restrictions...

into neighborhoods as the issues of discrimination were analyzed with the renting, buying, and financing of homes. Internet real estate as a concept began...

the production returns fall faster than the returns to corruption and rent-seeking activities, resources will flow from productive activities to corruption...

blamed capitalists, landlords, and foreign companies for engaging in rent-seeking behaviour. Communists, who already harboured resentment against PSI and...

to facilitate elites' rent-seeking activities. Particularly, the legal and political systems that protect elites' claims on rent revenues form the basis...