 | 1819 - 552 pages
...said by Mr. Ricardo, to be ' that portion of the produce of the ear^h, which is paid by the farmer to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.' This definition may be considered as sufficiently correct, if by the phrase ' original and indestructible... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 566 pages
...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...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 624 pages
...obscurity and disputation, choose to understand by the term Rent, in all cases, the rent of land, or ' that, portion of the produce of the earth which '...paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestruct' ible powers of ¿he soil.' Whereas by Rent, as a general tenu, i is- understood the annual... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...parts of his work on the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, It is defined, first, to be " that portion of the produce of the earth, which is...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But the definition... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...parts of his work on the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, It is denned, first, to be " that portion of the produce of the earth, which is...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But the definition... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...therefore advances and endeavours to establish another in its stead, as follows : — " Rent," he says, " is that portion of the produce of the earth which...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil."t Nothing can be more futile and absurd than this definition, or more vain and useless than the... | |
 | Periodicals - 1829 - 560 pages
...wages of labour and profits of stock had been replaced out of the gross produce.] Ricardo ^[ calls it ' that portion of the produce of the earth which is...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.' But it is not for the original, but the actual powers ; it is not for the indestructible, but... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Chennai (India) - 1830 - 494 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...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." P. 50. "No one would pay (rent) for the use of land where there was an abundant quantity not... | |
 | 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...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." P. 50. "No one would pay (rent) for the use of land where there was an abundant quantity not... | |
 | Robert Hamilton - Economics - 1830 - 444 pages
...these kinds of improvement ; and as he will not be able to draw more benefit from his capital and It is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the proprietor for the use of the original powers of the soil, which constitutes rent in the most proper... | |
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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. 
