Rent Seeking and Human Capital How the Hunt for Rents Is Changing Our Economic and Political Landscape Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Auteur : von Seekamm Jr. Kurt
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 redistribution of wealth rather than wealth creation. This short and provocative book addresses the key questions: Who are the rent seekers? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are the consequences of rent seeking for the broader economy? And, finally: What should policymakers do about them? The chapters examine the existing literature on rent seeking, including looking at the differences between rent seeking and economic rent. The work provides an in-depth look at the case of the impact of rent seeking degrees in the United States, particularly in business and law, and explores potential policy remedies, such as a wealth tax, changes to the rules on financial transactions, and patent law reform.
This text provides an important intervention on rent seeking for students and scholars of heterodox economics, political economy, inequality, and anyone interested in the shape of the modern capitalist economy.
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
Kurt von Seekamm Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Salem State University, USA.
Date de parution : 06-2022
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 11-2020
13.8x21.6 cm
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Prix indicatif 64,97 €
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Rent Seeking; Patent Trolls; Stem Degree; capitalism; High Frequency Trading; wealth; Monopoly Rents; wealth creation; Patent Holder; economic rent; Financial Transactions Tax; unproductive labor; Violated; policy remedies; Degree Completions; wealth tax; Stem Field; heterodox economics; Secondary Financial Markets; political economy; Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet; inequality; IPEDS; Federal Reserve; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Stem Literacy; Firm Profits Increase; Robin Hood Tax; Public Postsecondary Institutions; Real Personal Income; NFA; Individual Labor Market Outcomes; Term Rent; Postsecondary Education