Supernormal profits

Supernormal profits

Supernormal profit, also referred to as abnormal profit, is an economic term of profit exceeding the normal profit. Normal profit equals the opportunity cost of labour and capital, while supernormal profit exceeds the normal return from these input factors in production.

In principle there are three kind of abnormal profit:

*Monopoly rent
*Resource rent
*Intra marginal rent


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