What is Rent-seeking?
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Noun: A search for privilege and personal gain through the political process.
Behavior of various agents in society use rent-seeking methods to maximize their market power by means other than socially valuable methods of increasing productive efficiency and the like.
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The practice of inserting random, unrellated references to Einstein, Asimov, Plato, etc into conversations about subjects such as food, ..
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v. (slang)
Informal phrase used to describe performing an Internet search using the Google Search Engine.
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