Abstract

This article presents the debate on the theory of land rent. It starts from the agricultural case and addresses the theory of urban land rent, approaching its modalities and magnitudes in light of value theory. The capitalized income in the price of land condenses a social value fund whose magnitude is expressed according to macroeconomic variables due to its capacity for interfering directly or indirectly in wages and profits. This theoretical approach allows us to analyze the economic effects of a bill pending in the Senate that allows the acquisition of municipal lands by foreign capital in Brazil.

value theory; private land ownership; agricultural land rent; urban land rent; foreign capital