Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking

By J. Buchanan. 2008

283 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Toke S. Aidt
2. Rajeev Kumar Goel
3. Guglielmo Tosato
4. Eugen Dimant
5. Benjamin Powell
6. Jac C. Heckelman
7. Peter Sandholt Jensen
8. Christian Bjørnskov

In Finance

1. Toke S. Aidt

Citations in the corpus

• Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence (2011, unknown): “This may lead to a greater diversion of resources into unproductive use (Buchanan, 1980).”
• Rent seeking and the economics of corruption (2016, background): “Contestable rents differ from contestable profits, which trigger socially productive activities (Buchanan 1980).”