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Directly Unproductive, Profit-Seeking (DUP) Activities
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This paper propses directly unproductive, profit-seeking (DUP) activities as a general concept that embraces a wide range of recently analyzed economic activities, including the subset of rent-seeking activities considered by Krueger. It then proceeds to provide a synthesis and generalization of the welfare-theoretic analysis of such activities by developing a fourfold categorization of cases depending on the levels of distortions before and after the DUP activity. Thus a unification and overview of the subject are achieved.
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- Authors
- Bhagwati, J. N.
- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1982-10
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 988-1002
- ISSN
- 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-534X
- OpenAlex
- W2028243237
- Cited by
- 1,206
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 55.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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