 | Edwin Griswold Nourse - Agriculture - 1916 - 936 pages
...the nearer that limit is approached. After a certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from the...agricultural skill and knowledge, by increasing the labor the produce is not increased in an equal degree; or, to express the same thing in other words,... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Land use - 1922 - 322 pages
...the nearer that limit is approached. After a certain, and not very advanced stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from the...of agricultural skill and knowledge, by increasing Uie labor, the produce is not increased in equal degree; doubling the labor does not double the produce;... | |
 | Francis Lester Patton - Agriculture - 1926 - 114 pages
...certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge, by increasing the labor, the produce is not increased in an equal degree ; doubling the labor does not double the produce;... | |
 | Law - 1928 - 354 pages
...Mill states it in the following words: "After a certain and not very advanced stage in the process of agriculture, it is the law of production from the...agricultural skill and knowledge, by increasing the labor, the produce is not increased in an equal degree; doubling the labor does not double the produce;... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1991 - 302 pages
...principle of diminishing returns with the same main condition of constancy as Ricardo had specified: "it is the law of production from the land, that in...the produce is not increased in an equal degree." 43 But so long as the ceteris paribus pound was limited to specific, observable (in principle) conditions... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1991 - 302 pages
...principle of diminishing returns with the same main condition of constancy as Ricardo had specified: "it is the law of production from the land, that in...the labour, the produce is not increased in an equal degree."43 But so long as the ceteris paribus pound was limited to specific, observable (in principle)... | |
 | Lester O. Bumas - Business & Economics - 1999 - 560 pages
...called this law "the most important proposition in political economy," and his formulation is used here: In any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge,...express the same thing in other words, every increase in produce is obtained by a more than proportional increase in labour to the land (1961 [1848], p.... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - Economics - 2003 - 458 pages
...difficulty, in the absence of disturbing causes, of obtaining an increased supply of food; it being the law of production from the land, that, "in any given state of agricultural skill, the application of additional labour and capital to land yields a less proportionate return; doubling... | |
 | Henry George - Business & Economics - 2006 - 453 pages
...applied to cultivation with any energy, and have brought to it any tolerable tools ; from that time it is the law of production from the land, that in...skill and knowledge, by increasing the labour, the pnxtace is not increased in equal degree ; doubling labour does not increase the produce ; or to express... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 2006 - 477 pages
...the nearer that limit is approached. After a certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from the...given state of agricultural skill and knowledge, by in174 creasing the labor, the produce is not increased in an equal degree; doubling the labor does... | |
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After a certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture, it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge... 
