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The social cost of rent-seeking: First estimates.
- Source :
- Public Choice; Sep1988, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p269-275, 7p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 1988
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Abstract
- Looks at the first attempts to empirically verify and quantify the alleged social waste due to rent-seeking in the U.S. Overview of the theoretical trade-off between investment in socially unproductive rent-seeking and socially productive profit-seeking behavior; Evidence of rent-seeking and economic well-being; Factors that constitute measures of real economic activity over time in the economy.
- Subjects :
- RENT (Economic theory)
SOCIOECONOMICS
UNITED States economy
LAND use
PROFIT
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00485829
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Choice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17152765
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00155672