A star not yet lit · Politics
Rent Seeking
Effort spent winning a bigger slice instead of baking a bigger pie.
Effort spent winning a bigger slice instead of baking a bigger pie. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
What this star will be, on the blog →
Rent Seeking is a star on the Constellate sky: placed by meaning, named, and connected to the stars around it. See where it sits →
On the sky
Nearest on the sky
- Overproduction of Elites
- The Invisible Hand
- The Median Voter
- The Iron Law of Oligarchy
- Veto Players
- Constitutions as Commitment Devices
A filled dot marks a star that is already open to walk.
Every star is lit by demand. Ask for Rent Seeking and it moves up the list.
Find it on the sky and ask →Meanwhile, the first concept of every course is free. No signup, no card.
The first concept of every course is open to walk, free to start.
Begin your exploration →Or explore the whole sky. No signup, no card.