Economic rent
ANY PAYMENT TO AN OWNER OR FACTOR OF PRODUCTION IN EXCESS OF THE COSTS NEEDED TO BRING THAT FACTOR INTO PRODUCTION
Economic rents; Economic Rents; Economic Rent; Economic rent (political economy); Economic rent (economics); Scarcity rent; Rent (economics); Land rent; Monopoly rent; Paretian rent
In economics, economic rent is any payment (in the context of a market transaction) to an owner or factor of production in excess of the costs needed to bring that factor into production. In classical economics, economic rent is any payment made (including imputed value) or benefit received for non-produced inputs such as location (land) and for assets formed by creating official privilege over natural opportunities (e.