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The history of economic thought can be divided into three broad approaches as to the theory of land rent. Each approach is dominated by a specific concept of rent and tends to prevail in a specific period of the history of economic thought.
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Quadrio-Curzio, A. (2018). Land Rent. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_835
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