Re: Income from a tax on land.

jmhall_at_apex.home.net
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: 29 Dec 2004 17:28:08 -0500

royls@telus.net writes:

> On 27 Dec 2004 23:14:19 -0500, jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:
>
> >Any economic rent is "unearned" in the sense that it's
> >more than is required to induce some resourcing into a
> >particular production activity. That holds for captial
> >and labor as well as land.
>
> Such definitions of rent are confusing, and IMO outright erroneous.

Stating that rents are unearned is not defining rent
merely noting one of it's characteristics. I don't claim
that all that is unearned is a rent.

jmh

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