 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...with affirming, as I think I may be fully warranted to do, that rent is the price paid, not merely " for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil," but for the use of the land as it is, in its actual condition and circumstances. stance, unless there... | |
 | 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),... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...capital, labour, wages, and other terms, set up a definition peculiarly their own. ' Rent,' they say, ' is that portion of the produce of the earth which...the original and indestructible powers of the soil.' f This description entirely omits what in reality constitutes by far the greater part of all rent,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...capital, labour, wages, and other terms, set up a definition peculiarly their own. ' Rent,' they say, ' is that portion of the produce of the earth which...the original and indestructible powers of the soil.' -|- This description entirely omits what in reality constitutes by far the greater part of all rent,... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1831 - 440 pages
...capital, over that quantity of capital.—Principles, p. 366. RICARDO. (Principles, $c.) 3rd Ed. 1. Rent. That portion of the produce of the earth which is...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... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1832 - 386 pages
...over that quantity of capital. — Principles, p. 366. RICARDO. (Principles, ifc.) 3d 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 laborer's proportion of the produce. — Chap. v. 3. Profit. The capitalist's proportion... | |
 | George Poulett Scrope - Economics - 1833 - 496 pages
...Ricardo, (and Messrs. Macculloch, Mill, and many other economists have adopted his definition) — " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which...landlord for the use of the original and indestructible natural powers of the soil!' (Ricardo, Pol. Econ., chap, ii.; Mill's Elements, p. 39 ; Macculloch's... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1835 - 494 pages
...we must inquire ' 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,...' original and indestructible powers of the soil. It ' is often, however, confounded with the interest and ' profit of capital, and, in popular language,... | |
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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. 
