resources such as minerals, oil, and gas.

Historically, theories of rent have typically applied to rent received by different factor owners within a single economy. Hossein Mahdavy was the first to introduce the concept of "external rent", or rent received by one economy from other economies.

Definitions

Since the late 1800s, there have been several substantially different conflicting definitions of the term "economic rent", and some of these definitions

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