The Laws of Wages, Profits, and Rent, Investigated |
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50 cents acre Adam Smith afford agriculture aliment amount of labour amount of raw average price beef bushels cause century cheaper commodities competition consequence consumption cost crease crop demand diminished dollars duce effect employed employment England estimated exchangeable value fall farm fertile land flour give grain hundred quarters husbandry improvements inclosure acts increase of numbers increase of population Indian corn inferior soils labouring class land yields landlord less lessen M'Culloch's manufactures means of subsistence mode of subsistence natural price obtain ordinary partly political economy pork portion potatoes price of corn price of labour price of raw profits of capital proportion proprietor purchase quarters rate of profit raw produce reason received resort to inferior Ricardo rise of rents risen slaves stationary supply suppose taken into cultivation tenant theory of rent tion tivation usury laws value of labour wages of labour wheat yields a rent