Wei_Dai comments on Open Thread, August 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong
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In that case it's a related topic called "rent seeking", I think. The second paper I linked above talks about how simple models of rent seeking predict total rent dissipation, but the paper wants to challenge that.
The Jevons paradox and rebound effect articles are more like what I had in mind, but still a little different.