Archive for December 22nd, 2015
Marx and taxing economic rent
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2015 - under Marx.
Tags: Economic rent
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This is very much a draft paper. I argue that taxing resource rents in Australia involves a battle between the state in its Commonwealth and State and Territory variations as landlord and mining capital as both a new landlord and exploiter of the land and the minerals therein. That battle is over the share of the economic rent which mining capital extracts from other capital in the process of distribution of the profit or more correctly surplus value arising in production.