 | English literature - 1777 - 756 pages
...or fmaller according to the more or lefs fertility of the foil. It is this premium which conftitutes what we now call rent; a medium by means of which...the average price of grain at a rate high enough to eorn-hw?. Vol. enable the farmer to Cultivate fo much of thofe unfertile fields as will be fufficient... | |
 | English literature - 1777 - 750 pages
...I'm aller according to the more or lefs fertility of the foil'. It is this premium which conftitutes what we now call rent; a medium by means of which the expence of cultivating foils of very different с!е,7геез of fertility may be reduced to a perfcci equality. In countries, therefore, of moderate... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Business & Economics - 1964 - 480 pages
...or smaller according to the more or less fertility of the soil. It is this premium which constitutes what we now call rent, a. medium by means of which the expense of cultivating soils of very different degrees of fertility may be reduced to a perfect equality."... | |
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... fertile fields, and will be content to give a certain premium for an exclusive privilege to cultivate them; which will be greater or smaller according to the more or less fertility of the soil. It is this premium which constitutes what we now call... 