The extra amount earned by a resource (e.g. land, capital, or labour) by virtue of its present use.
〔经济〕经济收益，经济租金（通过对诸如土地、资本或劳力等资源的现有用途而获得的额外收益）
Example sentencesExamples
As seller it collects the economic rents inherent in the resource.
In this case, each fisher does not earn the economic rent that would reflect the scarcity value of the fish to society.
Taxing the economic rent of natural resources induces users to make optimal use of environmental resources.
For instance, if the two approaches were to overlap, the purchase of development rights would tend to undercut land value taxation as a revenue source because the economic rents would be largely removed.
They obtain economic rents at the expense of taxpayers and consumers who are unorganized, uninformed, and paying costs that are not well defined or conspicuous.
Definition of economic rent in US English:
economic rent
noun
Economics
The extra amount earned by a resource (e.g., land, capital, or labor) by virtue of its present use.
〔经济〕经济收益，经济租金（通过对诸如土地、资本或劳力等资源的现有用途而获得的额外收益）
Example sentencesExamples
Taxing the economic rent of natural resources induces users to make optimal use of environmental resources.
They obtain economic rents at the expense of taxpayers and consumers who are unorganized, uninformed, and paying costs that are not well defined or conspicuous.
As seller it collects the economic rents inherent in the resource.
For instance, if the two approaches were to overlap, the purchase of development rights would tend to undercut land value taxation as a revenue source because the economic rents would be largely removed.
In this case, each fisher does not earn the economic rent that would reflect the scarcity value of the fish to society.