rent-seeker
English
Noun
rent-seeker (plural rent-seekers)
- (economics) A person who engages in rent-seeking behavior.
- 1993 Jan, Thomas W. Hazlett, Robert J. Michaels, “The Cost of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Cellular Telephone License Lotteries”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 59, number 3, pages 425–435:
- The marginal rent-seeker may in fact have faced high information costs.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.