English Dictionary

rent-seeking

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɛnt siːkɪŋ/

名詞

不可算名詞

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

日本語の意味

政治的または経済的な環境を操作し、政府の介入や市場参入の制限を通じて利益を得ようとする行為 / 政府の政策介入を求め、市場アクセスを制限することで個人的利益を追求する経済活動

The company's rent-seeking tactics, such as lobbying for regulatory barriers, stifled competition and innovation.

その企業の利権追求行為は、参入障壁を求めるロビー活動などにより競争とイノベーションを抑制した。

意味（1）

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

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.

意味（2）

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

Ultimately, at the very end of the spectrum rent-seeking takes place in private social life, even though a delimitation critically depends on the society's 'subjective' definition of property rights and duties. It makes sense to define people begging on the street and knocking on doors as rent-seekers, in particular if they have opportunities to work.