Rent, Resources, Technologies

Historical and theoretical introduction to rent, resources and technologies.- Introduction.- Historical and empirical stylized facts.- Classical dynamics, scarcity, and surplus rent.- General static scarcity and marginal rent.- Dynamic and static scarcity, surplus and marginal rent: comparisons and developments.- Specific natural scarcities.- Growth without natural scarcities.- Complex development and relative scarcities.- Relative and absolute scarcities.- Scarce resources and structural rent in static conditions.- Resources, complex and dynamic scarcities, technological rent.- Conclusions and further lines of analysis.- Production and distribution: data, hypothesis and problems.- Introduction.- Basic products and primary commodities (PCC1).- Non-produced means of production (NPMP) and the processes directly using them.- Commodities and processes not directly using NPMP.- Technical coefficients and shares of necessary consumption.- Production techniques.- The viability of the techniques.- Scale constraints of the techniques and technological scarcity.- Production technologies.- Dimension of the economic system.- Some problems: new interdependence between production and distribution.- The order of efficiency (OE).- The levels of activity of the economic system.- The technology of the economic system.- The technology of the economic system.- The order of rentability.- Induced changes in the distribution of income.- Autonomous changes in the distribution of income.- Static analysis and dynamic analysis.- Conclusions.- Order of efficiency.- Introduction.- The general system price-distribution.- The sub-system prices-wage-profit.- The rent sub-system and types of rent.- The central role of NPMP.- Static price-distribution order of efficiency.- The order of efficiency with zero wage and maximum rate of profit.- The order of efficiency with zero profit maximum unit wage.- The order of efficiency with unit wage and rate of profit different fromzero.- The order of physical