Policies to effectively reduce deforestation are discussed within a land rent (von Thünen) framework. The first set of policies attempts to reduce the rent of extensive agriculture, either by neglecting extension, marketing, and infrastructure, generating alternative income opportunities, stimulating intensive agricultural production or by reforming land tenure. The second set aims to increase ...

The absence of a competitive market may enable public-sector workers to extract rents from taxpayers in the form of high pay, especially when public-sector workers are unionized. On the other hand, this rent extraction may be suppressed by the ability of taxpayers to vote with their feet, leaving jurisdictions where public-sector workers extract high rents. However, although migration of taxpay...

According to “Hotelling rule” price of an “exhaustible resource” exceeds its marginal cost of production in perfect competition equilibrium by amount equal to the opportunity cost of depleting the resource now rather than next periods. This cost is called “scarcity rent”. Oil price exceeds its marginal extraction costs significantly. This can be attributed two different sources: effect of scarc...

In the context of chronic problems with high housing costs, rent regulation has returned to forefront policy debate in several countries. This paper addresses three distinct questions related and role evidence. First, what are drivers change on does evidence play shaping change? Second, is nature base key messages that emerge from it? Third, how this transmitted into debate? We take example rec...

Crises of seniors’ care in countries like the UK and Canada, further highlighted by COVID-19 pandemic, have been connected to processes privatization financialization. In this paper I argue that rent theory is important for disaggregating mechanisms, including accumulation dispossession, devaluation labour, assetization, underpin process financialization sector. Work on rents often divides betw...

Two influential papers in the tax avoidance literature (Desai and Dharmapala 2006 and Desai et al. 2007) argue that tax avoidance can be used to facilitate managerial rent extraction from shareholders. The most direct large sample empirical evidence in support of this theory comes from Russia, which has a much different regulatory and corporate governance environment than the United States, but...