...Economy and Taxation, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1951. But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth...profit, and wages, will be essentially different; depending mainly on the actual fertility of the soil, on the accumulation of capital and population,...

...community,' wrote David Ricardo - viz., the proprietor of land, the owner of the capital and the 148 workers. 'To determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principal problem in Political Economy' (Ricardo 1984, p. 3). Students of International Relations, notably diplomats and officers at first,...

...cultivation, and the laborers by whose industry it is cultivated. But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth...profit, and wages, will be essentially different, depending mainly on the actual fertility of the soil, on the accumulation of capital and population,...

...on profits and wages. b. l) Rent, distribution, and accumulation "...in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth which will be allotted to each of these classes [namely, the proprietors of the land, the owners of capital, and the labourers (Authors' note)], under...

...rent, profit, and wages, is regulated by laws, and, wrote Ricardo in the Preface to his great text, 'To determine the laws which regulate this distribution, is the principal problem in Political Economy' (ibid.). Although the science had been much improved by the likes of Turgot, Smith, Say, and others,...

..."afford very little satisfactory information respecting the natural course of rent, profit and wages. ... To determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principal problem of political Economy."2 But to elucidate the distribution of income in a society where men sell their...

...cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated. But in different stages of the society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth...to each of these classes, under the names of rent, profits, and wages, will be essentially different; depending mainly on the actual fertility of the...

...cultivation, and the laborers by whose industry it is cultivated, But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth...determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principle problem in political economy,5 Thus while for Smith the driving question of political economy...

...of capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated ... To determine the laws which regulate this distribution, is the principal problem in Political Economy ... (p. 102). Walsh and Gram's exposition of Ricardo is not as detailed as their exposition of Smith....

...cultivation, and the laborers by whose industry it is cultivated. But in different stages of society, the proportions of the whole produce of the earth...determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principle problem in political economy.5 Thus while for Smith the driving question of political economy...