The political economy of the Rent-Seeking Society

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...

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Main Author: Krueger, Anne O
Format: Book
Published: Nashville American Economic Association June 1974
Series:American Economic Review n. 3
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100 |a Krueger, Anne O 
245 |a The political economy of the Rent-Seeking Society 
260 |b American Economic Association 
260 |a Nashville 
260 |c June 1974 
300 |a pp. 291-303  |b il. 
490 |a American Economic Review  |v n. 3  |x 00028282 
504 |a Incluye bibliografía 
520 |a 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. It is the purpose of this paper to show some of the ways in which rent seeking is competitive, and to develop a simple model of competitive rent seeking for the important case when rents originate from quantitative restrictions upon international trade. A preliminary section of the paper is concerned with the competitive nature of rent seeking and the quantitative importance of rents for two countries, India and Turkey. In the second section, a formal model of rent seeking under quantitative restrictions on trade is developed and the propositions indicated above are established. A final section outlines some other forms of rent seeking and suggests some implications of the analysis. 
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650 |a MERCADO INTERNACIONAL  
650 |a ACTIVIDAD ECONOMICA  
650 |a COMPETITIVIDAD 
650 |a MERCADO MUNDIAL 
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