 | 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,... | |
 | 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 - 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,... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1844 - 600 pages
...of stock would not compel the capitalist to acquiesce in the diminution of his surplus in another. " The principles of rent which I have endeavoured to...equal labour, on the same or on different qualities of land.1 " Neither the gradations of soil, nor the successive applications of capital to land, with decreasing... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1853 - 284 pages
...compensation for the use of capital that is incorporated with land. Mr. Ricardo's definition is, " 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;" and he seeks... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...qualities, where they first settle, before going farther into the wilderness to reclaim. Mr Ricardo says, " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the indestructible powers of the soil," and not for the buildings,... | |
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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. 
