Competition makes it harder to make money, and thus depletes the future rents (and stock prices) of the incompetent.

In the former case, at least the rents stay at home!

Rents from oil production impede reforms in the major exporting countries.

As a result, Microsoft cannot extract anything close to its full monopoly rents unless it sells upgrades.

Manufactured home parks refer to housing estates where the house owner rents the land instead of owning it.

Whereas equities have dividends, bonds have coupons, and homes provide rents, gold is solely a play on capital appreciation.

But these Rentiers have not been able to translate the rents of their natural resource wealth into sustained economic growth.

Indeed, oil rents eventually weaken state institutions, and this hollowing out of the state often gives rise to growing discontent.

But there is almost no innovation, the elites are happy to live comfortably off energy rents, and corruption continues unchecked.

With fixed supply, rents on these properties should increase at a rate equal to or above the rate of GDP growth.

Given its risks and the gap between its social and private benefits, innovation requires rents returns above what competitive markets provide.

Only these institutions are capable of preventing the elite capture and insider rents that are putting global prosperity at long term risk.

When there is a single price, all the various cost curves are merged into one and low cost projects enjoy large rents.

Why are so many industries closed off to real competition? Because politicians are in the pockets of the incumbents who reap the rents.

Instead, the state is the target of political entrepreneurs who strive to capture it in order to capture the rents that it controls.

But the incentives to escape the resource trap are weakened by the overwhelming importance of the resource rents to the wider political elite.

Where there are extensive areas of public forest, the focus has been on setting concession rents and royalty rates to reflect market prices.

Moreover, commodity booms frequently produce ugly politics in countries with weak institutions, leading to costly struggles for resource rents, which are rarely invested wisely.

They also depend on economic rents or Russian derivatives rather than adding value themselves Ukraine makes profits from gas transit, Belarus from oil refining.

Many services remain inefficient, because they are either in the domain of an archaic public administration or enjoy monopoly rents created by regulatory barriers.

In other words, it is wasteful activity that achieves nothing more than enabling the collection of rents on items that might otherwise be free.

In this winner take all environment, only a small number of those who have taken programming courses will reap a majority of the rents.

They all point to economies where development is impeded by bureaucracy, monopoly rents often the result of political patronage or nepotism and sclerotic credit markets.

Similarly, higher per capita incomes generated by oil rents do not foster interest within the Gulf economies in seeking deeper regional integration with the more diversified economies.

The cost of corruption has been particularly high in India and Indonesia, where policies created monopolies that earned scarcity rents, which were then allocated to officials family members.

And the low interest rates needed to maintain full employment would lead in time to the euthanasia of the rentier of those who live off the rents of capital.

Your future is our future.

These are only a handful of examples. They all point to economies where development is impeded by bureaucracy, monopoly rents often the result of political patronage or nepotism and sclerotic credit markets.

Abuse of buyer's power could occur through extraction of rents from suppliers, adopting house brand or local labels competing with suppliers' products or extending unfair contracts, for example in the case of franchising.

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The problem is that the reforms needed to achieve such growth fighting corruption, protecting property rights, privatization, and integration into the global economy directly threaten the elite s ability to hold on to power and extract rents.

They are future presidents and future regional and local leaders.

In Los Angeles, Grace and her mother moved around often as they struggled financially, taking out short term rents rather than paying for permanent residence while eating a basic diet, as it was all they could afford.

In paragraph 46 of the report, UNEP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it promptly allocate and recover the charges in respect of rents paid by the UNEP Regional Office for Europe on behalf of other offices.

Indeed, much of the money that accrues to those at the top is what economists call rents, which arise not from increasing the size of the economic pie, but from grabbing a larger slice of the existing pie.

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