| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1837 - 1158 pages
...has said on the subject, in order that the reader may be fully in possession of his vie ws^ " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is...original and indestructible powers of the soil. It ia often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and in popular language the... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Business & Economics - 1837 - 380 pages
...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, however, confounded with the interest and... | |
| George Tucker - Economics - 1837 - 214 pages
...deficiency in the quantity. It indeed seems a startling proposition, from one who defines rent to be "that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the owner of land for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil," that rent is increased... | |
| Richard Whately - Logic - 1840 - 508 pages
...over that quantity of capital. — Principles, p. 36G. RICARDO. (Principles, #c.) 3rd Ed. 1 . Rent. That portion of the produce of the earth which is...original and indestructible powers of the soil.— p. 53. 2. Wages. The labourer's proportion of the produce. — Chap. v. 3. Profit. The capitalist's... | |
| Alonzo Potter - Capitalism - 1840 - 332 pages
...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...landlord for the use of the original and indestructible natural powers of the sail."—(Ricardo, Political Economy, chap. ii. ; Mill's Elements, p. 39; M'Culloch's... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Economics - 1844 - 286 pages
...neglected to qualify the without insisting upon this, what is the definition ? " Rent," says Ricardo, " is that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Can this definition be sustained ? Certainly not. The word "indestructible" is liable to challenge;... | |
| Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - Economics - 1847 - 494 pages
...profits of the capital employed ; " and Mr. Bicardo, in his Principles of Political Economy, calls it, " that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." — Tr. prise, as is usually done, hunters, fishermen, shepherds, and all those who collect the spontaneous... | |
| Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - Logic - 1848 - 490 pages
...expenditure of a given quantity of capital, over that quantity of capital. — Principles, p. 366. earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. — p. 53. 2. Wages. The labourer's proportion of the produce. — Chap. v. 3. Profit. The capitalist's... | |
| Political science - 1849 - 506 pages
...of Fearne, on Contingent Jlemaiiuitrt and Executory Devitei. KENT is defined by Mr. Ricardo to be " that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however (he remarks), coufounded with the interest... | |
| Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1853 - 282 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...the original and indestructible powers of the soil;" and he seeks to discriminate it from that portion " paid for the use of the capital which had been... | |
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