"Eugene Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote: 

> I was reading some remarks -- you may have seen them same -- about "rent and 
> rent-seeking" with its implied opprobrium and realized an implication. 

Rents are usually charges for things like land rent, copyrights, patents, 
trademarks, right-of-ways, etc. 

> How can anyone -- let alone an economist -- think about the world like that, 
> with a few bad actors seeking rents? 

Rents are not necessarily a bad thing. How are authors going to get paid 
otherwise? 

-- 
Ron 

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