 | David Ricardo - Classical school of 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,...landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil-j It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1826 - 452 pages
...and deserved celebrity. I agree with Mr. Ricardo (Principles of Political Economy, page 491), that " rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is given to the landlord for the use of the soil;" but I cannot agree with him when he says (page 571),... | |
 | 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...landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But... | |
 | 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...landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But... | |
 | 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...landlord for the 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... | |
 | 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...landlord for the 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,... | |
 | Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1829 - 516 pages
...and deserved celebrity. I agree with Mr. Ricardo (Principles of Political Economy, page 491), that " rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is given to the landlord for the use of the soil ;" but I cannot agree with him when he says (page 571),... | |
 | 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...landlord for the 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... | |
 | 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...landlord for the 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... | |
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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. 
