Rent-Seeking

So far, Di Tella and MacCulloch seems eerily similar to a passage in Nobel-prize-worthy Anne Krueger's "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society," published over three decades ago: If the market mechanism is suspect, the inevitable temptation is to resort to greater and greater intervention, thereby increasing the amount of economic activity devoted to rent seeking.

How the Rational Voter Assumption Derails Promising Research, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

For those interested, I summarized this history near the end of my 1996 article, Rent-Seeking Behind the Green Curtain.

The Volokh Conspiracy » OzoneGate and ClimateGate 2009

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Forbes.com: News 2010

The Looming Failure of Obamacare, Part 3: Rent-Seeking

ObamaCare Is Starting To Bleed Insurers Dry 2011

Drug Companies and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Drug Companies and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Alternative Energy and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Alternative Energy and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Rent and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Rent and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Rent-Seeking and Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Rent-Seeking and Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Rent-Seeking in Sin City, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Rent-Seeking in Sin City, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Abramoff and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Abramoff and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009