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Also mentioned are Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago, for his analysis of financial crises, or American professors Anne Krueger and Gordon Tullock for their description of a behavior they called rent-seeking, which refers to actions to manipulate an environment for personal gains without contributing to productivity.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By MALIN RISING 2011
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That extension is nothing more than what economists would call "rent-seeking," using property as a cover.
Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Is it reasonable to conjecture that the number of pages in the legislation and the amount of rent-seeking involved in its design are positively correlated?
AARP rent-seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Economists worry that licensing is a form of supply restriction and rent-seeking.
Physician Licensing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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An example of professional licensing as rent-seeking (in more ways than one).
Various Articles, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The history of CTEA suggests that it was was pure political rent-seeking.
Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yes it's reasonable to conjecture that the length correlates with rent-seeking.
AARP rent-seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Indeed, we have every reason to think that Disney's current monopoly (gained as Lessig irrefutably shows by rent-seeking politics long after Walt's initial creativity had reaped its promised reward) makes it slothful and thus reduces creativity.
Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I often wonder about the boundary between licensing/credentialing and rent-seeking, and this Arnold Kling post sums up an interesting perspective: [Quote of a Loewenstein paper] in favor of paternalism, based on findings in behavioral economics.
A Case for Paternalism?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Paul Krugman thinks that this was motivated by rent-seeking.
AARP rent-seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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