01492     2200289   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020002200097041000800119082001100127084001500138100004600153245015400199260003400353300003700387504001700424520056400441650002201005650002501027990002501052990002501077990002501102990002501127990002501152990002501177INLIS00000000000314520221025021152  a0010-0520003145221025                |          | eng    a978-3-540-79185-0  aeng  a330.07  a330.07 FOR0 aForty Years of Research on Rent Seeking 21 a40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2 :bApplications : Rent Seeking in Practice /cEdited by Roger D. Congleton, Arye L. Hillman, and Kai A. Konrad  aHeidelberg :bSpringer,c2008  axiv, 815 p. :b: ilus. ;c24 cm.  ap. 808 - 811  aThe quest for rents has always been part of human behavior. The research for rents, defined as rewards and prizes not earned or not consistent with competitive market return. The academic rent-seeking literature is relatively new emerged from papers by Gordon Tullouck, Anne Krueger, and Richard Posner. It includes recent game-theoretic analyses of rent-seeking contests and also apllications of the rent-seeking concepts and methodology to economic regulation, international trade policy, economic history, political competition, and other social phenomena. 4aEconomic Research 4aRent Seeking, Method  a09562/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09563/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09562/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09563/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09563/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09562/MKRI-P/XI-2008