Crony capitalism: Rent seeking, institutions and ideology

Paul Dragos Aligica, Vlad Tarko

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Abstract

This paper elaborates the notion of "crony capitalism" and advances an innovative approach to the analysis of the phenomenon in case, seen as a type of rent-seeking society. The argument leads to a pioneering attempt to elaborate an original theory of crony capitalism as a sui generis system and with that end in view it combines three complementary perspectives: microeconomics (dealing with the basic economics of rent-seeking), institutional or structural (dealing with the specific structures and configurations of institutions, policies and processes via which rent seeking gets materialized), and ideological (dealing with the ideas, rhetoric, beliefs, doctrines and other forms of legitimization and justification of the specific policies and institutions). The paper identifies significant functional differences between crony capitalism in high-income and developing countries and advances a novel interpretation of the special nature of crony capitalism by focusing on the distinctive features of its ideological component.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)156-176
Number of pages21
JournalKyklos
Volume67
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2014
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Economics and Econometrics

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