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Economic rent is viewed as unearned revenue [2] while economic profit is a narrower term describing surplus income earned by choosing between risk-adjusted alternatives. Unlike economic profit, economic rent cannot be theoretically eliminated by competition because any actions the recipient of the income may take such as improving the object to ...
Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, [3] [4] and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.
Rentier capitalism is a concept in Marxist and heterodox economics to refer to rent-seeking and exploitation by companies in capitalist systems. [1] [2] [3] The term was developed by Austrian social-geograph Hans Bobek, [4] describing an economic system that was widespread in antiquity and still widespread in the middle east, where productive investments are largely lacking, the highest ...
Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.
Rentier state. In current political-science and international-relations theory, a rentier state ( / ˈrɒntieɪ / RON-tee-ay or / rɒ̃ˈtjeɪ /) is a state which derives all or a substantial portion of its national revenues from the rent paid by foreign individuals, concerns or governments. [ 1]
Resource rent. In economics, rent is a surplus value after all costs and normal returns have been accounted for, i.e. the difference between the price at which an output from a resource can be sold and its respective extraction and production costs, including normal return. [1] This concept is usually termed economic rent but when referring to ...
The definition of affordable housing may change depending on the country and context. For example, in Australia, the National Affordable Housing Summit Group developed their definition of affordable housing as housing that is "...reasonably adequate in standard and location for lower or middle income households and does not cost so much that a household is unlikely to be able to meet other ...
Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It tries to describe, explain, and predict patterns of prices, supply, and demand. The closely related field of housing economics is narrower in scope, concentrating on residential real estate markets, while the research on real estate trends focuses on the ...