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In economics, economic rent is any payment to the owner of a factor of production in excess of the costs needed to bring that factor into production. [1] In classical economics, economic rent is any payment made (including imputed value) or benefit received for non-produced inputs such as location and for assets formed by creating official privilege over natural opportunities (e.g., patents).
The economic rent obtained is an abnormal rent, often referred to as resource rent, since it generates from a situation where the resource owner has open access to the resource for free. In other words, the resource rent is the resource royalty or resource's net price (price received from selling the resource minus costs. In this case costs are ...
Differential ground rent and absolute ground rent are concepts used by Karl Marx [1] in the third volume of Das Kapital [2] to explain how the capitalist mode of production would operate in agricultural production, [3] under the condition where most agricultural land was owned by a social class of land-owners [4] who could obtain rent income from farm production. [5]
There’s a problem with inflation. It just refuses to go that “last mile” down to 2%, the magic percentage targeted by the Federal Reserve . Economists have widely agreed on one culprit: high ...
This concept is usually termed economic rent but when referring to rent in natural resources such as coastal space or minerals, it is commonly called resource rent. It can also be conceptualised as abnormal or supernormal profit. In practice, identifying and measuring (or collecting) resource rent is not straightforward.
Henry George had famously advocated for the replacement of all other taxes with a land value tax, arguing that as the location value of land was improved by public works, its economic rent was the most logical source of public revenue. [3] Subsequent studies generalized the principle and found that the theorem holds even after relaxing ...
The term rent, in the narrow sense of economic rent, was coined by the British 19th-century economist David Ricardo, [4] but rent-seeking only became the subject of durable interest among economists and political scientists more than a century later after the publication of two influential papers on the topic by Gordon Tullock in 1967, [5] and ...
Transformation problem: The transformation problem is the problem specific to Marxist economics, and not to economics in general, of finding a general rule by which to transform the values of commodities based on socially necessary labour time into the competitive prices of the marketplace. The essential difficulty is how to reconcile profit in ...