Rent Seeking

question 6

Multiple Choice

Rent seeking

• A)is the attempt to find apartments in a rent-controlled city
• B)only makes sense in a monopolistically competitive industry
• C)is a zero-sum game because the public's loss is the rent seeker's gain
• D)is the expenditure of resources to obtain favorable treatment from government
• E)occurs because of cyclical majority

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