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Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 5))

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In Chapter 1, we discussed the hermeneutic aspects of rent-seeking in a democratic collective decision-choice system. The discussions allowed us to examine social information structure and the possible abstractions of the knowledge structure where the knowledge structure is seen as an input into the decision-choice actions in the political economy. The system was related to fuzzy or fuzzy-stochastic rationality, cost-benefit rationality, and expenditure-revenue duality. Let us now amplify the analytical works in the rent-seeking space.

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Dompere, K.K. (2014). Rent-Seeking, Rent-Creation and Rent-Protection in Social-Goal Objective Formations. In: Fuzziness, Democracy, Control and Collective Decision-choice System: A Theory on Political Economy of Rent-Seeking and Profit-Harvesting. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05329-5_2

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