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Rent-seeking

Cutting yourself a bigger slice of the cake rather than making the cake bigger. Trying to make more money without producing more for customers. Classic examples of rent-seeking, a phrase coined by an economist, Gordon Tullock, include:

  • a protection racket, in which the gang takes a cut from the shopkeeper's profit;
  • a cartel of firms agreeing to raise prices;
  • a union demanding higher wages without offering any increase in productivity;
  • lobbying the government for tax, spending or regulatory policies that benefit the lobbyists at the expense of taxpayers or consumers or some other rivals. Whether legal or illegal, as they do not create any value, rent-seeking activities can impose large costs on an economy.
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