Rent-seeking and human capital : how the hunt for rents is changing our economic and political landscape / Kurt von Seekamm Jr.

"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 recomme...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Von Seekamm, Kurt, Jr (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge frontiers of political economy.
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Table of Contents:
  • A primer on inequality
  • Landlords, rents and seekers
  • Rent seeking, examples of wasted resources
  • Education and the allocation of talent
  • The politics of removing rents.