Rents and rent-seeking is a concept that has found its place in today's global economic literature and in order to promote the concept and examining its instances, some valuable studies have been conducted. However, the studies of the field within our country were very negligible. It might be able to say that a few studies on the subject of rents have scrutinized it on a scientific basis in Iran. Rent study is important because the existence of rent and rent-seeking opportunities in an economy has an important impact on occupational composition and talent's allocation in a society. Due to lack of proper definition of the concept of rents in Iran economy, investigating about the meaning and significance of this phenomenon is primarily . ries to investigate in a scientific analysis of meaning of rent in economic literature. Thus, most important studies in the economics of rent will be assessed and analyzed and we will introduce some of the micro and macro measuring indicators of rent which have been used in experimental studies. The results of this study indicate that measuring of economic rent is only possible through defining alternative variables. The method which is obviously being used in rent economy literature.