A Bibliography Of Articles On Rent, Natural Resources, and the Space Economy

I have various results in examples with rent, and unsolved problems exist in the literature. Vienneau (2022) shows an example of the reswitching of the order of fertility and of the order of rentability in non-overlapping regions of the parameter space. D’Agata (1983) shows that, with intensive rent, the choice of technique can be non-unique away from switch points. Some wage curves along the frontier can slope up, and a cost-minimizing technique may not exist because of a cycle in a market algorithm. I have a well-behaved example with extensive and intensive rent. So some theorem might demarcate where intensive rent does not cause these issues. In my example, the order of fertility and of rentability are exactly opposite for some range of the rate of profits. In another reswitching example, intensive and extensive rent arise with a technology in which multiple agricultural commodities can be grown on each type of land. I would like to see a simple example of reswitching with exhaustible resources, if that makes sense

The following bibliography is not complete, but the later works are probably sufficient to locate additional earlier works. I probably should have more references for ecological economics.

• Baranzini, M. L., Rotondi C., and Scazzieri R. (eds.) 2015. Resources, Production and Structural Dynamics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Barnes, Trevor and Eric Sheppard. 1984. Technical choice and reswitching in space economies. Regional Science and Urban Economics 14(3): 345-362
• Bidard, Christian. 2010. The dynamics of intensive cultivation. Cambridge Journal of Economics 34 (6): 1097-1104.
• Bidard, Christian. 2014. The Ricardian rent theory: an overview. Centro Sraffa Working Papers 8.
• Bidard, Christian. 2018. Ricardo and Ricardians on the order of cultivation. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 40(3): 389-399.
• Bidard, C and G. Erreygers. 2001a. The corn–guano model. Metroeconomica 52(3): 243–253
• Bidard, C and G. Erreygers. 2001b. Further reflections on the corn–guano model. Metroeconomica 52(3): 254–268
• Bidard, C and G. Erreygers. 2020. Exhaustible resources and classical theory. Oeconomia 10(3).
• D'Agata, Antonio. 1983. The existence and unicity of cost-minimizing systems in intensive rent theory. Metroeconomica 35(1-2): 147-158.
• Erreygers, Guido. 1995. On the uniqueness of cost-minimizing techniques. Manchester School 63(2): 145-166.
• Erreygers, Guido. 2026. Land, rent and reproduction. On Walras’s criticism of the classical theory of rent. Revue d'histoire de la pnesée économique 1(21)
• Fratini, Saverio M. 2016. Rent as a share of product and Sraffa's price equations. Cambridge Journal of Economics 40(2): 599-613.
• Gehrke, Christian. 2013. Rent, as a share of the produce, not governed by proportions. In: Levrero, E. S., A. Palumbo, and A. Stirati (eds.) Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Vol. Three
• Gibson, Bill and Darryl McLeod. 1983. Non-produced means of production in Sraffa’s system: basics, non-basics and quasi-basics. Cambridge Journal of Economics 7(2): 141-150
• Huang, Biao. 2018. An exhaustible resources model in a dynamic input–output framework: a possible reconciliation between Ricardo and Hotelling. Journal of Economic Structures 7(1).
• Ianni, Guido. 2026. Class struggle and the international division of surplus: the distributive surface in the open economy. Metroeconomica
• Kurz, H. D. and N. Salvadori. 2011. Exhaustible resources: rents, profits, royalties and prices. In: Caspari, V (ed) The evolution of economic theory: essays in honour of Bertram Schefold. Routledge, London.
• Kurz, H. D. and N. Salvadori. 2015. The classical approach to exhaustible resources: Parrinello and the others. In: Kurz, H. D. and N. Salvadori N. Revisiting classical economics: studies in long-period analysis. Routledge, London
• Metcalfe, J. S. and I. Steedman. 1972. Reswitching and primary input use. Economic Journal 82(325): 140-157.
• Montani, Guido. 1975. Scarce natural resources and income distribution. Metroeconomica 27: 68-101.
• Montet, C. 1979. Reswitching and primary input use: a comment. Economic Journal 89(355): 642-647.
• Parrinello, S. 2004. The notion of effective supply and the theory of normal prices with exhaustible natural resources. Economic Systems Research 16(3): 311-22.
• Pasinetti, Luigi L. 2015. On the origin of the theory of rent in economics. In Mauro L Baranzini, Claudia Rotondi, and Roberto Scazieri (ed.) Resources, Production and Structural Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pavlik, C. 1990. Technical reswitching: a spatial case. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 22(8): 1025-1034.
• Quadrio Curzio, Alberto. 1980. Rent, income distribution, and orders of efficiency and rentability, in Pasinetti, L. L. (ed.) Essays on the Theory of Joint Production, New York: Columbia University Press.
• Quadrio Curzio, A. and Pellizzari, F. 2010. Rent, Resources, Technologies. Berlin: Springer.
• Ravagnani, Fabio. 2008. Classical theory and exhaustible natural resources: notes on the current debate. Review of Political Economy, 20(1): 79-93.
• Sau, Ranjit. 1986. Ground rent and super profit in the Sraffa system. Indian Economic Review. New Series 21(1): 51-60.
• Schefold, B. 1989. Mr. Sraffa on Joint Production and other Essays, London: Unwin-Hyman.
• Sheppard, E., and T. J. Barnes. 1990. The Capitalist Space Economy. London: Routledge.
• Verger, Yoann. 2015. A critique of attempts to introduce Hotelling's rule in Sraffa's theory.
• Verger, Yoann. 2021. Sraffa and the revenue of the owner of non-renewable natural resources: a note on the literature. In: Sinha, Ajit (ed.), A Reflection on Sraffa's Revolution in Economic Theory.
• Vienneau, R.L. 2022. Reswitching in a model of extensive rent. Bulletin of Political Economy 16(2): 133-146.
• Zaffari, Gabriel and Giacomo Sbrenna. 2026. Sraffa goes to space: spatial elements of political economy. Review of Political Economy 38(3): 840-861.