 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...subject, we must enquire into the nature of rent, and the laws by which its rise or fall is regulated. Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil-j It is often,... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1826 - 452 pages
...of his surplus in another. § 2.—Errors of'Mr. Ricardo and his followers on tlie subject of Rent. The principles of rent which I have endeavoured to...labour, on the same, or on different qualities of land." Neither the gradations of soil, nor the successive applications of capital to land, with decreasing... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1829 - 516 pages
...his surplus in another. § 2. — Errors of Mr. Rlcardo and hi-s followers on the subject of Rent. The principles of rent which I have endeavoured to...labour, on the same, or on different qualities of land." Neither the gradations of soil, nor the successive applications of capital to land, with decreasing... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1829 - 518 pages
...great and deserved celebrity. I agree with Mr. Ricardo (Principles of Political Economy, page 4Q1), that " rent is that portion of the produce of the...labour, on the same, or on different qualities of land." Neither the gradations of soil, nor the successive applications of capital to land, with decreasing... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 472 pages
...profits must fall to 3 per cent., and that as he pays no wages, the fall of APPENDIX. RENT. P. 48. " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." P. 50. "No... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Chennai (India) - 1830 - 478 pages
...owner's profits must fall to 3 per cent., and that as he pays no wages, the fall of RENT. P. 48. " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." P. 50. "No... | |
 | George Poulett Scrope - Economics - 1833 - 496 pages
...Ricardo, (and Messrs. Macculloch, Mill, and many other economists have adopted his definition) — " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible natural powers of the soil!' (Ricardo,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1835 - 494 pages
...we must inquire ' into the nature of rent, and the laws by which its ' rise or fall is regulated. ' Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, ' which is paid to the landlord for the use of the ' original and indestructible powers of the soil. It ' is often,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Business & Economics - 1837 - 380 pages
...that he has said on the subject, in order that the reader may be fully in possession of his views. " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the origmal and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often,... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Capitalism - 1840 - 332 pages
...Mr. Ricardo (and Messrs. M'CulIoch, Mill, and many other economists have adopted his definition)," Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible natural powers of the sail."—(Ricardo,... | |
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Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. 
