經濟租 - 經濟

小弟曾經寫過一篇文字討論 "經濟租" 和 "競租" 的意義. 年與時馳, 意與歲去.
轉眼間已經是一年前的事了.

總之, 既然小弟手上有現成的文章, 其內容大概也不會有什麼爭議, (反正只是引
用 D. Ricardo 和 A. Krueger 的話,) 您不妨參考參考:


經濟租最早的定義出自 David Ricardo (1772-1823)的 "Principles of Political
Economy and Taxation" (1817)，最早是討論地租問題：

Economic rent on land is the value of the difference in productivity
between a given piece of land and the poorest [and/or most distant],
most costly piece of land producing the same goods (e.g. bushels of
wheat) under the same conditions (of labour, capital, technology, etc.).

　　競租的概念則是出自於 Anne Krueger 的 'The Political Economy of the
Rent-Seeking Society' (1974)：

The using up of real resources in an effort to secure the rights to
economic rents that arise from government policies. In international
economics the term usually refers to efforts to obtain quota rents.

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