Economics Today: The Micro View (19th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
Economics Today: The Micro View (19th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
19th Edition
ISBN: 9780134479255
Author: Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 21, Problem 20P
To determine

The change in economic rent when the rental rate on land rises.

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Economic rent: In economics, the economic rent is completely different from the commercial or contractual rent. The commercial or contractual rent is the price paid to hire an economic factor but the economic rent is completely different.In economics, economic rent means the producers surplus that is the difference between what people are willing to pay and what they actually pay. Sometimes the economic rent is referred to as opportunity cost. In economics the theory of economic rent is associated with the famous English economist David Ricardo he build his model of economic rent by assuming the land is equally productive and the supply of land is fixed irrespective of the price. The economic rent is calculated by Economics Today: The Micro View (19th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics), Chapter 21, Problem 20P addition to the economic rent is known as more economic rent.

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