Only if one considers rent-seeking to be entrepreneurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Well, My Health Insurance Policy Just Became Illegal] Reference

No money siphoned out of the system by rent-seeking middlemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weissman: The Medicare-for-All Moment] Reference

They are engaged in rent-seeking, and that requires propaganda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » You Know You Are In Trouble When…] Reference

The term used by economists for their behavior is "rent-seeking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Climate-Industrial Complex] Reference

The Times includes several irritating but entertaining stories of rent-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Great Report on Earmarks] Reference

Business is making easier profit from rent-seeking than it is from doing business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pass the Vaseline and bend over? Or take a stand?] Reference

Such offsets are an accounting nightmare, and a virtual Disneyland for rent-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Federal Tax on Market Share Changes] Reference

Where a tax credit is complicated and invites rent-seeking, a tax cut is transparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reaction to the payroll tax holiday] Reference

But it regularly yields more moral hazard, more rent-seeking, more conflicts of interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regulatory Good Intentions] Reference

Left unchecked, rent-seeking will lead to more bureaucratic inertia and economic sclerosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Kolb: A Nation of Rent-Seekers?] Reference

In 2008 Mr. Lewis decided to play the rent-seeking game and sucked up to Bernanke and Paulson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Is What You Get For Cooperating with the Government] Reference

Ghastly consequences of local government and planning regulations held hostage by rent-seeking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Conservative is The Wire?] Reference

It contradicted the theory of rent-seeking under inward-oriented-trade regimes developed in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Absent that I would like to see Bhagwatti and Gordon Tullock win for the development of rent-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Austrian Economists:] Reference

Gordon Tullock argued in reforming the rent-seeking society a transitional gains trap must be overcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Austrian Economists:] Reference

While said owners may talk the free-markets talk, they pretty much inevitably walk the rent-seeking walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: The New York Times gives Harold Ford, Jr. enough rope] Reference

Forbes subsequently published my letter in which I called this rent-seeking SOB a “venture socialist.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Corporate State] Reference

In addition to congressional earmarks, here are some other examples of rent-seeking in our political system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Kolb: A Nation of Rent-Seekers?] Reference

Others — ahem, General Electric — are in our view engaged in little more than old-fashioned rent-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap-and-Tax Escape] Reference

On the other hand, there are “unproductive” activities, which include rent-seeking, corruption and crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism and Democracy - The Austrian Economists] Reference

This is a pretty standard pattern for regulation created for the benefit of rent-seeking established interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Under FTC Regulation] Reference

It contradicted the theory of rent-seeking under inward-oriented-trade regimes developed in the 1970s and 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Add, too, the lies, deceit, dissembling and deception which are manifestly endemic to these rent-seeking "insurers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paula Gordon: HealthCareLess] Reference

For one thing, this does not reflect rent-seeking by real estate interests -- there are no public subsidies, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salt Lake City's Sacred Space] Reference

In one example, only 13% of educational aid to Uganda reached schools; the rest was siphoned off by rent-seeking officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Africa Needs Growth, Not Pity and Big Plans] Reference

Regulators should be hostile to rent-seeking by the established, and hospitable to the companies whose names we do not know.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Malaise and How to End It] Reference

For many of Africa's rent-seeking regimes, China's entrance as a resource-hungry global creditor is manna from the ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rules Of Engagement] Reference

Greece has an expansive but highly inefficient civil service and an economy stifled by regulation, favoritism and rent-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Greece Default] Reference

The problem is that EVERYTHING Frank points out as a cost is FAR less costly than the rent-seeking orgy he wants to start instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Constitution and was, in reality, a strategy of power-grabbing and rent-seeking, dressed in the rhetoric of social justice, Leon said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This disparity gives incentives to obtain rent-seeking positions in the public sector rather than in the wealth-creating private sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britain Must Be Bold for Growth] Reference

But won't it devalue the reputation of Ringo Starr to be associated with the sort of deadbeat rent-seeking parasites who get knighthoods?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sign up to support Sir Ringo!] Reference

But I am adverse to rent-seeking, and there is admittedly a thin line between trying to make positive change and rent-seeking in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Proposal to Keep Arizona State Parks Open] Reference

Individuals at the highest levels of government may have no incentives to control corruption or to refrain from taking part in rent-seeking activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rationale and motivations for sustainomics] Reference

At the same time, powerful rent-seeking lobbies, including the state corporations and local officials, demand their large slices of the stimulus package.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing's 'Legless' Stimulus] Reference

In some cases, this may be manifested in rent-seeking behaviour by those with access to military power, or even direct appropriation and transfer of assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of armed conflict in Africa] Reference

These include monopoly pricing and other forms of rent-seeking, placing barriers to entry in some industries and a value system based on greed and crass materialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC National Policy Conference 2007] Reference

At the same time, there is a growing (and unhealthy) tendency toward rent-seeking in this country -- the use of political power to redistribute, rather than to create, wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Kolb: A Nation of Rent-Seekers?] Reference

The usually pro-private sector Economist agreed, admitting that “many of the private firms brought in to replace state researchers turned out to be rent-seeking monopolists.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden Bello: Destroying African Agriculture] Reference