the aim of this study is to review the rentier state theory, with special regard to iran. iran’s rentier state is highly dependent on oil revenues, but much less on tax revenues. even this negligible reliance on tax revenues, itself seems to be indebted to oil revenues. thus the main research hypothesis is that iran’s oil revenue is one of the main determinants of tax revenues. to empirically t...

The Functional Rent Advisor (FRA) is an intelligent Inter-net application that allows calculating an estimate of the fair rent for a at in Munich. The FRA is a re-implementation of the Munich Rent Advisor FA96] using the high-level purely functional language Haskell. This paper shows that Haskell is appropriate to realize non-trivial Inter-net applications. Simplicity, exibility and rapid proto...

People are now tightly connected through mobile Internet applications, whether they platform owners, renters, business professionals, or users. The presence of Rent is concealed between owners and renters according to Marx's rent theory. Owners platforms lease out data land charge renters. Similar rent, demonstrates differential rent. However, due the instantaneous replicability flow activities...

In this paper, …rms engage in rent seeking in order to be assigned a governmental contract. We analyze how a change in the contract length a¤ects the …rms’ rent-seeking behavior. A longer contract leads to more rent seeking at a contract assignment stage, as the …rms value the contract higher. On the other hand, the contract has to be assigned less often, which of course leads to less rent seek...

Innovations and their adoption are the keys to growth and development. Innovations are less socially useful, but more profitable for the innovator, when they are adopted slowly and the innovator remains a monopolist. For this reason, rent-seeking, both public and private, plays an important role in determining the social usefulness of innovations. This paper examines the political economy of in...