Wei_Dai comments on Open Thread, August 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 01 August 2012 03:39PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (149)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 08 August 2012 11:25:12PM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: cousin_it 15 August 2012 08:18:40PM *  1 point [-]

The Jevons paradox and rebound effect articles are more like what I had in mind, but still a little different.