rent-seeking
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rent-seeking
- /ɹɛnt siːkɪŋ/ US, UK
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From rent (“a profit from possession of a valuable right”) + seeking.
noun rent seeking
- The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market. 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 o
- The effort to increase one's share of wealth without doing something productive or adding value. Ultimately, at the very end of the spectrum rent-seeking takes place in private social life, even though a delimitation critically depends on the society's 'subjective' definition of property rights and duties. It makes sense to define people begging on the street and knocking on doors as rent-seeke
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noun attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market
| Español | búsqueda de renta |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 尋租 /寻租 xúnzū |
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@misc{rent_seeking_2026,
title = {rent-seeking},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rent-seeking},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
