| 1819 - 552 pages
...said by Mr. Ricardo, to be ' that portion of the produce of the ear^h, which is paid by the farmer to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.' This definition may be considered as sufficiently correct, if by the phrase ' original and indestructible... | |
| David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...the laws by which its rise or fall is regulated. 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-j It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 624 pages
...understand by the term Rent, in all cases, the rent of land, or ' that, portion of the produce of the earth which ' is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestruct' ible powers of ¿he soil.' Whereas by Rent, as a general tenu, i is- understood the annual... | |
| American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...already cultivated."* As rent is stated by Mr. Ricardo to be " 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," according to the progress of population, it would seem necessarily to follow, that every addition to... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...Political Economy and Taxation, It is denned, first, to be " 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." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But the definition given... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...Political Economy and Taxation, It is defined, first, to be " 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." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But the definition given... | |
| Periodicals - 1829 - 560 pages
...replaced out of the gross produce.] Ricardo ^[ calls it ' 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.' But it is not for the original, but the actual powers ; it is not for the indestructible, but the undestroyed... | |
| Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...another in its stead, as follows : — " Rent," he says, " 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."t Nothing can be more futile and absurd than this definition, or more vain and useless than the... | |
| George Robert Gleig - Chennai (India) - 1830 - 478 pages
...that as he pays no wages, the fall of RENT. P. 48. " 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." P. 50. "No one would pay (rent) for the use of land where there was an abundant quantity not yet appropriated."... | |
| George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 472 pages
...pays no wages, the fall of APPENDIX. RENT. P. 48. " 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." P. 50. "No one would pay (rent) for the use of land where there was an abundant quantity not yet appropriated."... | |
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