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Rent Seeking

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  • Gordon Tullock

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This is a succinct but comprehensive account of the research programme in rent-seeking launched in 1967 by Gordon Tullock’s argument that the availability of monopoly rents through government encourages self-seeking individuals to waste economic resources in competitive bidding for those rents.

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  • Gordon Tullock, . "Rent Seeking," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 383.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:383
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    1. Austen-Smith, David & Dziuda, Wioletta & Harstad, Bård & Loeper, Antoine, 2019. "Gridlock and inefficient policy instruments," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 14(4), November.
    2. Munger Michael C., 2012. "Basic Income Is Not an Obligation, But It Might Be a Legitimate Choice," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 6(2), pages 1-13, January.
    3. Fred S. McChesney, 2010. "The Economic Analysis of Corruption," Chapters, in: Bruce L. Benson & Paul R. Zimmerman (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Crime, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Ivo Bischoff & Kai Hofmann, 2002. "Classroom Game on the Theory of Rent Seeking: Some Practical Experience," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 69(1), pages 195-199, July.
    5. J.A. den Hertog, 2010. "Review of economic theories of regulation," Working Papers 10-18, Utrecht School of Economics.

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    Keywords

    Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy;

    JEL classification:

    • H0 - Public Economics - - General

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