| 单词 | rent-seeking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrent-seeking rent-seeking n. Economics the fact or process of seeking to gain larger profits by manipulating public policy or economic conditions, esp. by means of securing beneficial subsidies or tariffs, making a product artificially scarce, etc.; cf. sense 4. ΚΠ 1974 A. Krueger in Amer. Econ Rev. 64 291/1 Rent seeking results in a divergence between the private and social costs of certain activities. 2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 May a16/2 Once government creates an artificial scarcity of carbon, how the credits are allocated creates a huge new venue for political rent-seeking and more subsidies for favored industries. < as lemmas |
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