Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
rent-seeking
Romanian translation:
a urmari obtinerea de foloase necuvenite/favoruri
Added to glossary by
Inga Murariu
Feb 15, 2003 13:32
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Moldova
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rent-seeking
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Here is the context, If it can be of any help:) :
... combined with exposure to opportunities for *rent-seeking* as elements of market economy developed.
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... combined with exposure to opportunities for *rent-seeking* as elements of market economy developed.
I know what "rent-seeking" means, I only need the Romanian word for it.
Thank you.
Proposed translations
(Romanian)
| 5 | a urmari (obtinerea de) foloase necuvenite |
costinro
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| 3 +1 | vanatorii de privilegii |
Daniela McKeeby
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| 4 | more details in "Explanation": |
danv
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Proposed translations
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a urmari (obtinerea de) foloase necuvenite
Este termenul oficial folosit in Romania (imprumutat din limbajul juridic)
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Note added at 2003-02-18 09:05:31 (GMT)
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exposure to opportunities for *rent-seeking* = influenta ocaziilor/posibilitatilor de a urmari obtinerea de foloase necuvenite
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Note added at 2003-02-18 09:05:31 (GMT)
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exposure to opportunities for *rent-seeking* = influenta ocaziilor/posibilitatilor de a urmari obtinerea de foloase necuvenite
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2 hrs
Daniela McKeeby
United States
United States
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Romanian
United States
Financial Services Experience
Native in: English , Romanian
Works in: Italian to English, Romanian to English, English to Romanian, and 4 more.
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vanatorii de privilegii
"S-a putut argumenta în mod convingător că Say reprezintă una dintre sursele importante ale teoriei moderne a vânătorii de privilegii "
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Note added at 2003-02-15 16:25:02 (GMT)
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Scuze, vanatoarea de privilegii
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Note added at 2003-02-16 02:10:57 (GMT)
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O alta definitie:
Rent seeking
Rent seeking is the activity of trying to obtain a monopoly from which an economic profit can be made.
http://coba.shsu.edu/micprin/EcoGloss/rz.htm
Ma indoiesc ca exista un echivalent romanesc. Se pare ca \"rent-seeking\" a fost importat in majoritatea limbilor. In traducerile romanesti am intalnit expresia fie neschimbata, fie tradus prin \"cautare de renta\"(???) sau vanatoare de privilegii. Ultima varianta mi se pare destul de apropiata de expresia engleza si in mod clar pe intelesul tuturor.
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Note added at 2003-02-15 16:25:02 (GMT)
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Scuze, vanatoarea de privilegii
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Note added at 2003-02-16 02:10:57 (GMT)
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O alta definitie:
Rent seeking
Rent seeking is the activity of trying to obtain a monopoly from which an economic profit can be made.
http://coba.shsu.edu/micprin/EcoGloss/rz.htm
Ma indoiesc ca exista un echivalent romanesc. Se pare ca \"rent-seeking\" a fost importat in majoritatea limbilor. In traducerile romanesti am intalnit expresia fie neschimbata, fie tradus prin \"cautare de renta\"(???) sau vanatoare de privilegii. Ultima varianta mi se pare destul de apropiata de expresia engleza si in mod clar pe intelesul tuturor.
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more details in "Explanation":
"Because rents are the easiest and most secure kind of income, it is natural for people to want income from rents rather than principally from profits or wages, and to want rents that involve the least risk and labor as enterprises. This motive is called "rent-seeking," and there is nothing wrong with it. Indeed, those who collect rents in an economy serve the valuable function of seeking to maintain and preserve capital assets [1]. It becomes wrong when rent-seeking means trying to collect rents off of capital that is not the rightful possession of the rent-seeker. This can be legally accomplished through the means that secure the rights of property in the first place: politics and the law. Through political influence people can be given ownership of things that are not their property, or should not be anyone's property. The theory of rent-seeking began with the economist Gordon Tullock."
Reference:
Discussion
Examples of rent-seeking behavior would include all of the various ways by which individuals or groups lobby government for taxing, spending and regulatory policies that confer financial benefits or other special advantages upon them at the expense of the taxpayers or of consumers or of other groups or individuals with which the beneficiaries may be in economic competition.