A study on the moral dimensions and criminological angles of rent-seeking in society
Akhlāq-i zīstī i.e., Bioethics Journal,
Vol. 11 No. 36 (1400),
17 Mordad 2021
,
Page 1-19
https://doi.org/10.22037/bioeth.v11i36.34832
Abstract
Background and Aim: Rent-seeking is inherently controversial as a moral corruptor but the conceptual and consequential study of this phenomenon makes it appear as an immoral practice that affects other areas of ethics in society. At present, rent seeking, in a broad sense, in addition to the economic field, has entered to various political and social contexts and it means, receiving illegitimate financial and non-financial benefits by using the grounds and factors of rent seeking; such as law enforcement, License, create monopoly and access to information. These are committed at the cost of violating meritocracy and causing discrimination and harm to others. This study aims to explain the moral and criminological effects of rent seeking in society.
Materials and Methods: The method of the research is descriptive-analytical and has done using library resources.
Ethical Considerations: Principles related to research ethics and especially fidelity has observed in citing the sources and references of the article.
Findings: Ethical and criminological examination of the reflections of rent seeking in society, shows that the spread of rent-seeking, will have many negative economic, political and cultural consequences for society especially through the channels of increasing discrimination and injustice, harm to others, poverty and unemployment, institutionalization of corruption, weakening of public morality, deepening of the class divide, polarization of society.
Conclusion: Due to the nature of rent-seeking and the circumstances of its commission, it can be seen that in addition to reducing the moral culture and violating justice and meritocracy, the expansion of this practice has a synergistic relationship with the development and multiplicity of crimes; specially economic crimes such as bribery, obtaining illegitimate property, abuse of position, money laundering, hoarding, land grabbing, embezzlement, etc. so, it is necessary to deal with this phenomenon effectively in three directions: Culturalize, elimination of rent fields and criminalization.
Cite this article as: Gorgin Akbarabadi E, Najafi Tavana A, Naji Zavareh M, Shambayati H. A Reading on the Moral and Criminological Dimensions of the Prevalence of Rent-Seeking in Society. Majale "Akhlāq-i zīstī" (i.e., Bioethics Journal). 2021; 11(36): e11.
- Rent' Rent-Seeking; Corruption; Moral Dimensions; Criminological Effects
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