 | Arthur Latham Perry - 1890 - 630 pages
...this century, that " 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." Two objections lie with fatal weight against this definition and all that is involved in it : first,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 462 pages
...Rent," says Ricardo, " 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." Can this definition be sustained1! Certainly not The word " indestructible " is liable to challenge... | |
 | 1891 - 874 pages
...Iticardo himself defined rent as ' 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 ; ' and he drew a distinction between this ' strict sense ' of the term and the ' popular sense,' which... | |
 | GEORGE GUNTON - 1891 - 530 pages
...Ricardian postulate that " rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landowner for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." No more fallacious notion was ever taught than that rent, or any other economic surplus, is a price... | |
 | Louis Mallet - 1891 - 398 pages
...belong, define it thus : " Rent is that portion of the produce of the soil which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often," he says, "confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and is applied to whatever... | |
 | 1891 - 870 pages
...Bicardo himself defined rent as ' 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 ; ' and he drew a distinction between this ' strict sense ' of the term and the ' popular sense,' which... | |
 | George Gunton - 1891 - 488 pages
...Ricardo, 1 namely, " that 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." * It is manifest that if rent is limited to what is paid for " the powers of the soil," or the fertility... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1893 - 482 pages
..." Rent," says Ricardo, " 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. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language,... | |
 | F. U. Laycock - 1895 - 418 pages
...noticed. He states that " 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." In many cases the rent is not paid to any landlord. For economic rent exists even when the land is... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1895 - 166 pages
...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. 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. 
