rent-seeking

释义与例句

n.

1.

The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market.

寻租

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In many market-oriented economies, government restrictions upon economic activity are pervasive facts of life. These restrictions give rise to rents of a variety of forms, and people often compete for the rents. Sometimes, such competition is perfectly legal. In other instances, rent seeking takes other forms, such as bribery, corruption, smuggling, and black markets.
2.

The effort to increase one's share of wealth without doing something productive or adding value.

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名词

From rent (“a profit from possession of a valuable right”) + seeking.

来源：wiktionary