rent-seeking

rent-seeking englanniksi

1. The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market.

2. 1974 June, Osborn Krueger|Anne Osborn Krueger, “The Political Economy of the Rent-seeking Society”, in ''(w)'', volume 64, page 291; reprinted in D. Congleton|Roger Douglas Congleton, Arye L. Hillman, and Kai A. Konrad, editors, ''40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2: Applications: Rent Seeking in Practice'', Berlin; Heidelberg: Science+Business Media|Springer-Verlag, 2008, (ISBN), page 151:

In many market-oriented economies, government restrictions upon economic activity are pervasive facts of life. These restrictions give rise to rents of a variety of forms, and people often compete for the rents. Sometimes, such competition is perfectly legal. In other instances, rent seeking takes other forms, such as bribery, corruption, smuggling, and black markets.

3. (quote-book))|seriesvolume=no. 90-23|location=Vancouver, B.C.|publisher=University of British Columbia|month=July|year=1990|pages=4–5|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZpnR3bWG6IC&pg=PP650|oclc=933854326|passage=It is almost certain that ‘rent-seeking’ would be a significant factor in a capitalist economy where the government encourages cartelization or confers ‘a leading sector’ role on any sector.

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5. (quote-book), (w)|month=April|year=2003|pages=38–39|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vymwY_4iU1kC&pg=PA39|isbn=978-0-16-051385-5|passage=One importance consequence of that fact is that efforts to restrict emissions may encourage the affected parties to seek regulatory provisions that provide them with tax exemptions or access to permits—that is, they may engage in rent-seeking behavior. For example, fossil fuel suppliers might advocate a system in which they were given emissions permits free of charge—so that they would receive the entire scarcity rent resulting from the emissions limits.

6. The effort to increase one's share of wealth without doing something productive or adding value.