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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Nature and Progress of Rent, by Thomas Malthus This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Nature and Progress of Rent Author: Thomas Malthus Release Date: August, 2003 [Etext# 4336] Posting Date: January 12, 2010 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NATURE AND PROGRESS OF RENT *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo Aldarondo AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND PROGRESS OF RENT AND THE PRINCIPLES BY WHICH IT IS REGULATED. By The Rev. T. R. Malthus _Professor of History and Political Economy In the East India College, Hertfordshire_ LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1815. Contents: Advertisement Rent Advertisement The following tract contains the substance of some notes on rent, which, with others on different subjects relating to political economy, I have collected in the course of my professional duties at the East India College. It has been my intention, at some time or other, to put them in a form for publication; and the very near connection of the subject of the present inquiry, with the topics immediately under discussion, has induced me to hasten its appearance at the present moment. It is the duty of those who have any means of contributing to the public stock of knowledge, not only to do so, but to do it at the time when it is most likely to be useful. If the nature of the disquisition should appear to the reader hardly to suit the form of a pamphlet, my apology must be, that it was not originally intended for so ephemeral a shape. RENT &c. The rent of land is a portion of the national revenue, which has always been considered as of very high importance. According to Adam Smith, it is one of the three original sources of wealth, on which the three great divisions of society are supported. By the Economists it is so pre-eminently distinguished, that it is considered as exclusively entitled to the name of riches, and the sole fund which is capable of supporting the taxes of the state, and on which they ultimately fall. And it has, perhaps, a particular claim to our attention at the present moment, on account of
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