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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:05 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] "Rent and rent seeking": strange formulation "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 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
