| 1818 - 638 pages
...With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to lands of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply...food, — rent on all the more fertile land will rise. ' Now, the sole reason why rent begins to be paid on land of the first quality, whenever land of a.... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Christian sociology - 1826 - 424 pages
...against the encroachments of the landlord. For, what is it that " obliges a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food?" It is " the progress of population." (Ricardo's Political Economy, p. 52, second edition.) Now, the... | |
| George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 472 pages
...would pay (rent) for the use of land where there was an abundant quantity not yet appropriated." P. 52. "Suppose land No. 1, 2, 3, to yield, with an equal employment of capital and labour, 100, 99, and 80 quarters of corn, net produce. If only No. 1 were cultivated, the whole net produce... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1837 - 1158 pages
...labour. With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its...capital and labour, a net produce of 100, 90, and 8Q quarters of corn. In a new country, where there is an abundance of fertile land compared with the... | |
| George Tucker - Economics - 1837 - 206 pages
...labour. With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its...employment of capital and labour, a net produce of one hundred, ninety, and eighty quarters of corn. In a new country, where there is an abundance of... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Business & Economics - 1837 - 380 pages
...that " with every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a nation to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food, rents on all the more fertile land will rise." This is very plausible, but facts are opposed to it.... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Business & Economics - 1837 - 380 pages
...labour. With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its...fertile land, will rise. " Thus suppose land — 'No. 1,2, 3, — to yield, with an equal employment of capital and labour, a net produce of 100, 90, and... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...labor. With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food, rent, in all the more fertile land, will rise." After illustrating the preceding views by supposing lands... | |
| 1840 - 550 pages
...labor. With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food, rent, in all the more fertile land, will rise." After illustrating the preceding views by supposing lands... | |
| United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...labour. With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food, rent, in all the more fertile land, will rise." After illustrating the preceding views by supposing lands... | |
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