 | Robert Scott Moffat - Economics - 1885 - 310 pages
...represented in the theory of rent. "What could be more plausible than to represent them thus ? Rent is " that portion of the produce of the earth which is...original and indestructible powers of the soil." It is a surplus over the cost of labour and capital required to cultivate the soil. When the produce does... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1885 - 606 pages
...its prompt payment the tenant was quit of any other service except fealty. Ricardo has defined rent as "that portion of the produce of the earth, which...original and indestructible powers of the soil.'" In Maryland the rent was originally paid in kind and not by money payments. It was from the quit-rents... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1885 - 182 pages
...Grundrente auf dem Unterschied zwischen den Erträgen zweier Grundstücke beruht, die zu ') „Kent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Ricardos Works, aa OS 34. z) „Rent is always the difference between the produce obtained by the employment... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...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...original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language, the... | |
 | James Platt - Irish question - 1886 - 216 pages
...with the bare necessaries of life, cannot possibly return any rent. Rent is denned by 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, " confounded with the interest... | |
 | John Towne Danson - Economics - 1886 - 420 pages
...such cases, be found to have lost the character attributed to it by Ricardo. It will not be paid only for the use of " the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Nay, it will be difficult, if not impossible, in any case where rent is paid for land, to ascertain... | |
 | Charles Francis Bastable - Commerce - 1887 - 262 pages
..." applied to whatever is annually paid by a farmer to his landlord," is confined, by Ricardo, to " that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." 6 The analytical description of a market, as given by Jevons,7 is another instance, and many such cases... | |
 | Charles Francis Bastable - Commerce - 1887 - 198 pages
..." applied to whatever is annually paid by a farmer to his landlord," is confined, by Ricardo, to " that portion of the produce of the earth which is...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil."6 The analytical description of a market, as given by Jevons,7 is another instance, and many... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...in the last half of the sentence the criterion laid down in the first half. Ricardo says: "Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 846 pages
...in the lust half of the sentence the criterion told down in the first half. nicardo says : " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and Indestructible powers of the soil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very... | |
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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. 
