 | Sandra Peart - 2003 - 296 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Terry Peach - 2003 - 256 pagina’s
...meaning of the thing defined as possible. "Rent," says Mr Ricardo, "is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." What these powers are, it requires, of course, another definition to inform us; and Mr Ricardo accordingly... | |
 | Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 324 pagina’s
...the unearned increment? Absolutely none. Rent, Ricardo had defined as 'that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil,' and he had expressly endeavoured to distinguish between such economic rent and payments to the landlord... | |
 | Robert Nadeau - 2003 - 278 pagina’s
...the chapter "On Rent" in On the Principles of Political Economy. Rent is the portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in the popular language,... | |
 | Terry Peach - 2003 - 370 pagina’s
...terms, set up a definition peculiarly their own. 'Rent,' they say, '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.'20 This description entirely omits what in reality constitutes by far the greater part of all... | |
 | E. Ray Canterbery - 2003 - 314 pagina’s
...the extra £1 per bushel, "economic rent." To Ricardo economic rent is paid to the owners of the land for "the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." This rent is not the same as returns derived from improvements made on the land, which give rise to... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 pagina’s
...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 paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language,... | |
 | Gerald M. Meier - 2004 - 264 pagina’s
...land: it is a return to the landlord that covers no cost and is merely "that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." In the classical tradition, Ricardo's analysis assigns overwhelming importance to capital accumulation... | |
 | Alexander Davidson - 2005 - 356 pagina’s
...was an early 1 8th century economist known for his theory that rent was 'that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil'. He argued that money was not significant in the payment of the rent, but that the landlord instead... | |
 | Stephen Merrett - 2005 - 169 pagina’s
...consequent effect of the creation of rent. Thus, Ricardo writes: 'Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the...the original and indestructible powers of the soil' (Ricardo 1821: 67). It is true that we may now doubt that any power of the soil is indestructible.... | |
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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. 
