...contradicts in the lust half of the sentence the criterion told down in the first half. nicardo says : " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which...the original and Indestructible powers of the soil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very...

...contradicts in the last half of the sentence the criterion laid down in the first half. Ricardo says: "Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very...

...Ricardo die Grundrente auf dem Unterschied zwischen den Erträgen zweier Grundstücke beruht, die zu *) „Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth...original '.and indestructible powers of the soil." Ricardos Works, aa 0. S. 34. s) „Rent is always the differenoe between the produoe obtained by the...

...contradicts iu the last half of the sentence the criterion laid down in the first half. Ricardo wiys: "Bent is that portion of the produce of the earth which...use of the original and indestructible powers of the (oil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a...

...Ricardo says, in "Principles of Economy," chapter ii., that " Rent is that portion of the pro duce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructable powers of the soil. * * " In a new country when there is an abundance of fertile land...

...dwells mainly on the comparative productiveness of soils. Rent is defined by Ricardo as the price paid for the use of "the original and indestructible powers of the soil." He thus differentiates rent, as he uses the term, from what is popularly designated by the word ; and,...

...inconsistency of the argument is absolute. To say that the ransom paid for what is dug out of the soil is given "for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil" is to reduce the definition to an absurdity.1 If that definition is to be stretched over either of...

...definitions are offered by the authors as elaborations of that given by their master Ricardo,2 who says, " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which...the original and indestructible powers of the soil ". THE COUNTY ' FAMILY. Let us return to our ideal country. Adam is retiring from productive industry...

...elaborations of that given LC>*> by their master Ricardo,2 who says, " Rent is that portion [ «r» ** of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord...the original and indestructible powers of the soil ". THE COUNTY FAMILY. Let us return to our ideal country. Adam is retiring from productive industry...

...David Ricardo, the Anglo-Jewish Banker, formerly announced, near the beginning of this century, that " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth,...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,...