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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

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  • Marcus Dejardin

    () (CERPE, Department of economics, University of Namur-FUNDP)

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In this chapter, we propose a primer of the treatment that has received in the economic literature the problematic of entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered (also for a reference situation departing from the first best). Some policy implications are finally briefly evoked.

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Paper provided by University of Namur, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 1112.

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Length: 9 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2011
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Handle: RePEc:nam:wpaper:1112

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Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Rent-seeking; Economic development;

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