R*nt-Seeking’s Greatest Hits

After directed to it by a past comment, I thought it would be helpful to list the bibliography of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics' entry on Directly Unproductive Profit-Seeking (DUP) Activities. These 35 papers seem to be the definitive works on rentseeking, so my hope long-term is to work through them and discuss them on r/Neoliberal.

I'm hopeful to find PDFs that I can attach for each to make them more accessible, but I'll need to go through some institutional access loops to do so.

I'd note that this was written in 2008, but doesn't cite any articles after 1987. I guess the 70s/80s were the heyday of establishing rentseeking, but I'm also curious to find out what the most important papers since then might be.

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