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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The law of rent states that the rent of a land site is equal to the economic advantage obtained by using the site in its most productive use, relative...

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

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

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:...

Mafia state Nepotism Plutocracy Political scandal Regulatory capture Rent-seeking Rent-setting State capture State crime Elections Ballot stuffing Electoral...

(1980), "Rent seeking and profit seeking", in Buchanan, James M.; Tollison, Robert D.; Tullock, Gordon (eds.), Toward a theory of the rent-seeking society...

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...

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

politics Vohra Report on criminalisation of politics in India Mafia Raj Rent-seeking Shaukatullah Shah Ansari Faridul Haq Ansari Afzal Ansari Hamid Ansari...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

instance, in the United States, minimal regulation on house flipping and rent-seeking behavior allows for gentrification, pricing out half a million Americans...