Is Marx's absolute rent due to a monopoly price?

Saverio Fratini

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2018, vol. 25, issue 5, 961-985

Abstract: Absolute rent, in Marx's view, has an upper limit represented by the difference between the value and the price of production of agricultural commodities. The relevance of this limit was questioned by Bortkiewicz because of the difficulties concerning the argument which Marx based it on. The lack of this upper limit prompted some scholars to claim that there is no difference between absolute rent and a rent paid by a monopoly price. Referring to the classical/Marxian theory of monopoly price, we shall argue that it is still possible to distinguish absolute rent from a rent due to a monopoly price.

Date: 2018
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