 Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which, from the nature of all...  History of Economic Thought.. - Page 200by Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 567 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - Social problems - 1916 - 826 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But population, could it be supplied with food, would go on with 1 Price, Obscrv. on Revers. Pay.,... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - Economics - 1916 - 914 pages
...thousand. But the food will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is confined in. room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase in food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which,... | |
 | Economics - 1922 - 616 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend on the amelioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream which from the nature of all... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - Sociology - 1924 - 1026 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But population, could it be supplied with food, would go on with unexhausted vigor; and the increase... | |
 | Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...thousand. But the food will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase in food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund which, from... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Business & Economics - 1959 - 164 pages
...every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain. When acre has been added to acre, till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food will depend upon the amelioration of the land already in possession; and even this moderate stream... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Business & Economics - 1964 - 480 pages
...portion of the footnote so far quoted did not reappear in the second edition. The note proceeds : " When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food will depend upon the amelioration of the land already in possession ; and even this moderate stream... | |
 | Clarence J. Glacken - History - 1976 - 806 pages
...lands are occupied, further increases must come from improvements in land already being cultivated. "When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...instead of increasing must be gradually diminishing." 54 In the following passage that aroused the contemptuous anger of Godwin, Malthus reveals how impressed... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1991 - 686 pages
...substantially new factor was introduced in the later editions of the Essay, and this was diminishing returns: When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...melioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream, which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing.... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus, Donald Winch - History - 1992 - 430 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the amelioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream12 which, from the nature of all soils,... | |
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