 | 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... | |
 | John Crawfurd - 1820 - 576 pages
...exorbitant impost, he demands not merely that portion of the produce of the earth paid to the proprietor for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil, or that which is a remuneration for the expenditure of capital in its improvement, but also the whole... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 566 pages
...subject, we must enquire 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,...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language,... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 560 pages
...subject, we must enquire 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,...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 - 1821 - 622 pages
...obscurity and disputation, choose to understand by the term Rent, in all cases, the rent of land, or ' that, portion of the produce of the earth which '...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... | |
 | Robert Torrens - 1826 - 452 pages
...great 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),... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pages
...parts of his work on the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, It is denned, first, to be " that portion of the produce of the earth, which is...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 - 1827 - 532 pages
...parts of his work on the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, It is defined, first, to be " that portion of the produce of the earth, which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Rent, according to this definition, is made to depend on natural fertility. But the definition given... | |
 | 1829 - 560 pages
...wages of labour and profits of stock had been replaced out of the gross produce.] Ricardo ^[ calls it ' that portion of the produce of the earth which is...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 - 1829 - 440 pages
...therefore advances and endeavours to establish another in its stead, as follows : — " Rent," he says, " is that portion of the produce of the earth which...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... | |
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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. 
