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Public Choice, 2002 The rent-seeking theory was one of thefirst economic instruments developed tomodel corruption in the public sector.Comparing corruption with lobbying, itproposes that the former is the lesser oftwo evils, since lobbying entails the wastage of resources inthe competition forpreferential treatment.
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.The article attracts researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders in renewable energy, hydrogen, and sustainable development, as it addresses the critical need for clean, efficient energy solutions. By evaluating the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of integrating wind energy with hydrogen production. The findings offer significant
Mohamed Elnaggar +4 more
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The Political Economy of Public Land Use
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1997 Federal ownership and management of the public lands have created a rent-seeking frenzy, inflated rhetoric, wasted resources, and squandered investment opportunities.
B. Delworth Gardner
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Subsidy Entrepreneurship and a Culture of Rent-Seeking in Singapore’s Developmental State [PDF]
, 2023 Bryan Cheang
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Influencing rent-seeking contests
Public Choice, 2008 This paper shows that a policy that uniformly increases contestants’ effort costs can lead to an increase in total effort. In asymmetric settings, this “levels the playing field” and therefore encourages weaker players (who otherwise would have stayed out) to enter.
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This Perspective examines practical power solutions for wearable healthcare systems, highlighting the limits of standard batteries. It categorizes wearables into four domains—point‐of‐care diagnostics, episodic monitoring, continuous long‐term monitoring, and therapeutic platforms—and analyzes their power needs.
Seokheun Choi
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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IMPROVEMENT OF RENT RELATIONS AS A FACTOR OF INCREASING THEENERGY EFFICIENCY OF UKRAINIAN ECONOMY
Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2014 The article addresses prerequisites and consequences of counterproductive rent-seeking behavior of economic agents as a factor that contributes to the low energy efficiency of the national economy.Author justifies the necessity and strategic directions ...
А. Grazhevska
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Those who can't sort, steal: caste, occupational mobility, and rent-seeking in rural India. [PDF]
J Demogr Economics, 2021 Lawson N, Spears D.
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