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• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 6: Rent Seekers

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 573
  by Glen Whitman As discussed in the previous post, the “experts” in charge of implementing new paternalist policies will have a tendency to simplify their own theories to make them useful for crafting policy. That alone creates slippery-slope potential. But that potential is magnified by the existence of ...
  6 days ago

• What would Teddy (Roosevelt) do?

  
  The Park Paradigm — Authority: 100
  I have long been concerned by the rise and rise of the global mega-bank , first due to my conviction of the impossibility of managing such complex behemoths (with the dangers as we all now know having repercussions far beyond any individual bank’s shareholders or creditors) and also due to the increasing rents ...
  1 week ago

• More Green Crony Capitalism

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 760
  Green energy investments are coming from every direction. Whether it is the stimulus package or the cap and trade bills proposed in Congress, the government is eager to invest taxpayer dollars in renewable energy technology. As Americans become desensitized to the copious amounts of money the government is spending, ...
  1 week ago

• Rent seeking and lawyers

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 125
  From California : Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices - and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far - can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who worked together writing the statute, The Associated Press has ...
  1 week ago

• 55.7 Million Reasons to Reject Public Financing for Sports Arenas

  
  no third solution — Authority: 482
  The next time someone tells you that the taxpayer residents of a city or urban area need to help some billionaire businessman finance the construction of a sports arena where he’ll sell you $5 hot dogs and $9 beers, remember the Pontiac Silverdome’s epic fail. Vacant about 99% of the time since 2002, the ‘Dome ...
  1 week ago

• None dare call it capitalism

  
  The Other Club — Authority: 420
  Government Electric General Electric, Corporatist Welfare Queen Copyright 2005-2009
  1 week ago

• Rent seeking (or lack thereof) in WoW

  
  WoW.com — Authority: 675
  Elnia continues posting some interesting (and complicated) insight into the World of Warcraft over at the Pink Pigtail Inn. This time, its about what she calls "rent seeking," which isnt about trying to find the money to pay for your apartment so much as its about individuals petitioning authorities (the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gross Evidence of Rent-Seeking

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 622
  It’s not often that you get enough evidence of rent-seeking you can actually find it entered into a public record. Leave it to Stupakistan to show the incredible power of insurance and other nondepository financial institutions to leave their fingerprints without shame on the public policy debate over the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gross Evidence of Rent-Seeking

  
  Sky Dancing in a Man's World — Authority: 92
  It’s not often that you get enough evidence of rent-seeking you can actually find it entered into a public record. Leave it to Stupakistan to show the incredible power of insurance and other nondepository financial institutions to leave their fingerprints without shame on the public policy debate over the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Gem From a 2,000 Page Bill: ‘Botox Carve-Out’ Survives in PelosiCare Bill

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  A provision within Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care measure passed by the House the other week rehashes a months-old intramural battle between powerful Democrats over how biologic drugs will face competition from generic drug manufacturers. While the House bill provides a brand drug maker-backed 12 years of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free vs Competitive Markets

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 487
  John Kay at the Financial Times has a short but very good piece up on markets and rent seeking. He first very ably defines and describes rent seeking. If you only occasionally dabble in reading economics, this is good stuff. You can become wealthy by creating wealth or by appropriating wealth created by other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of UPS And Rent-Seeking

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 145
  An excellent video by Nick Gillespie : Needless to say, there is a lot of this kind of thing going on.
  2 weeks ago

• Vikings and Pirates and Taxes, Oh My!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 742
  Today’s episode of “ Hagar the Horrible ” could be an epigraph for the new Fall 2009 issue of Cato Journal . This issue includes Greek economists Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis on “Vikings in Greece: Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy” as well as Peter Leeson, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Enforce the Sherman Anti-trust Act and Regulate the Shadow Banks

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 622
  I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating.  Monopoly power and rent-seeking behavior are anathema to market systems. Politics should stay out of economic decisions and government should provide the framework that makes the market honest, transparent, and open to all interests.  Republican and Democratic pols ...
  2 weeks ago

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  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 561
  
  3 weeks ago

• Using Unions As Weapons: UPS v. FedEx

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  You may have heard the UPS is in quite the political fight with FEDEX. Though both are package-delivery companies, they’re governed by totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS’s workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX’s-and more than twice as expensive. So now UPS is trying to ...
  3 weeks ago

• To John Quiggin: How reassuring climate "delusions" help us all to avoid engaging with "enemies" in exploring common ground

  
  TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Authority: 117
  I left the following comment on John Quiggin`s " Libertarians and delusion " post (other comments are noted in my preceding posts):   TokyoTom November 6th, 2009 at 14:03 | #34 @jquiggin “ have started to entertain the view that there is either ...
  3 weeks ago

• A few more "delusional" thoughts to John Quiggin on partisan perceptions & libertarian opposition to collective action

  
  TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Authority: 117
  Further to my preceding posts regarding John Quiggin`s post on " Libertarians and delusionism ", I copy below a few of the comments that I left there: TokyoTom November 4th, 2009 at 08:13 | #3 John,thanks for raising the topic more widely. However, I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gore getting rich off global warming

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 561
  Al Gore stands to profit from global warming and taxpayer dollars: Last year Mr Gore’s venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology. The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. The deal ...
  3 weeks ago

• Regulation of the Day 68: Ironing Tables

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 616
  Regulation begets rent-seeking. When government assumes the power to regulate imports, domestic firms will lobby to use that fact to their advantage. Case in point: Home Products International (HPI), an American company, makes ironing tables. So does Hardware, a Chinese company. I personally have no idea which firm ...
  4 weeks ago

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