Abstract Urban development and regeneration processes are both influenced by changes in the level of land rents over time space. Public intervention markets, including planning regulation, affects rent dynamics through discretionary decisions that create clear advantages inequalities landowner treatment. Focusing on Italian approaches to regulation value capture (LVC), research investigates evo...

Studies of economic development and economic history have long been concerned with the relationship between the transparent and supposedly anonymous forces of markets, states and bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the particular local and national forms of social organization in which actors' daily lives are embedded. Economists are quite divided about these latter forces: for some, they are n...

Class action lawsuits as a vehicle of rent extraction is developed as an extension of political/legislative rent extraction theory. An event study is performed on thirty firms in which a securities class action lawsuit is filed and subsequently resolved by retraction, settlement, or legal verdict. The data set is found to be consistent with rent having been extracted as a result of the class ac...

Current macroeconomic policy promotes continuous economic growth. Unemployment, poverty and debt are associated with insufficient growth. Economic activity depends upon the transformation of natural materials, ultimately returning to the environment as waste. Current levels of economic throughput exceed the planet‘s carrying capacity. As a result of poorly constructed economic institutions, soc...

M odern economic analysis, oriented toward understanding the workings of economies that make extensive use of markets, came into existence with three guiding questions, all central in Adam Smith’s (1776 [1937]) The Wealth of Nations. One question concerned order. Without any central authority guiding and commanding action, how is economic activity coordinated? The second question was the challe...

the aim of this study is to review the rentier state theory, with special regard to iran. iran’s rentier state is highly dependent on oil revenues, but much less on tax revenues. even this negligible reliance on tax revenues, itself seems to be indebted to oil revenues. thus the main research hypothesis is that iran’s oil revenue is one of the main determinants of tax revenues. to empirically t...

The Functional Rent Advisor (FRA) is an intelligent Inter-net application that allows calculating an estimate of the fair rent for a at in Munich. The FRA is a re-implementation of the Munich Rent Advisor FA96] using the high-level purely functional language Haskell. This paper shows that Haskell is appropriate to realize non-trivial Inter-net applications. Simplicity, exibility and rapid proto...