Re: technical question

[Dan Scanlan <coolhanduke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 3, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> what are the main types of "rent" in economics? (I'm not talking about
> a user fee, as paid to rent an apartment.)
>
> there's a natural-scarcity rent (Ricardo), technical rent (superior
> technology), what's now called monopoly rent (monopoly profits), and
> politically-granted rent (super-profits due to tariff protection and
> the like). Any others?
>
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to
> them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it
> means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Is a surplus of ire "rent and rave"?