1st Edition
Rent Seeking and Human Capital How the Hunt for Rents Is Changing Our Economic and Political Landscape
By Kurt von Seekamm Jr.
Copyright 2021
80 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
80 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
80 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Rent Seeking and Human Capital: How the Hunt for Rents Is Changing Our Economic and Political Landscape explores the debates around rent seeking and contextualizes it within the capitalist economy.
It is vital that the field of economics does a better job of analyzing and making policy recommendations that reduce the opportunities and rewards for rent seeking, generating returns from the... Read more
1 A primer on inequality
2 Landlords, rents, and seekers
3 Rent seeking, examples of wasted resources
4 Education and the allocation of talent
5 The politics of removing rents
Biography
Kurt von Seekamm Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Salem State University, USA.
