• Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • itself Goal seeking Job seeking Rent seeking SEEK, an Australian recruitment website Seek, a mobile app made by iNaturalist Seek: Reports from the Edges...
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    Privilege and Rent Seeking, Springer. Description and chapter-preview links.    • Jagdish N. Bhagwati, 1982. "Directly Unproductive, Profit-Seeking (DUP) Activities...
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    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...
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  • together with rent creation and rent seeking, determines the extent and distribution of rents. However, the three are distinct and rent extraction is...
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    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...
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