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History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (1): 110–120.
Published: 01 March 1973
...Winston C. Bush Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Population and Mills’ Peasant- Proprietor Economy Winston C. Bush AMONGthe classical economists “the advantage . . . of small properties in land” was “one of the most...
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History of Political Economy (1974) 6 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 1974
...Clive J. Dewey Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The rehabilitation of the peasant proprietor in nineteenth-century economic thought Clive J. Dewey As the eighteenth century drew to its close, an insular consensus approved the existing agrarian...
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (2): 297–302.
Published: 01 June 1976
...David E. Martin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 David Martin is Lecturer in Economic History in the University of Sheffield. The rehabilitation of the peasant proprietor in nineteenth-century economic thought: a comment David E. Martin In a section...
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (3): 423–449.
Published: 01 September 1983
... proprietors work harder than hired ag- ricultural workers and have greater incentives to raise productivity, save and invest, and limit family size. He even argued that proprietorship has a beneficial moral effect on the peasantry. If we strip away Mill’s mission- ary zeal for proprietorship...
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History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (4): 739–744.
Published: 01 November 1993
... of the country is . . . at the disposal of its proprietor.” This individual has many de- sires over and above “physical wants”: “splendour and elegance,” “accommodations,” “a train of dependants,” and so on. But also “he must have soldiers to defend him from the violence of invaders” (7, 8). Where...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 161–165.
Published: 01 March 2001
... no direct influence on the determination of D2: all that he can do, when D2 has been determined by proprietor (2), is to choose for D1 the value which is best for him. This he will be able to accomplish by properly adjusting his price, except as proprietor (2), who, seeing himself forced to accept...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 481–496.
Published: 01 September 1991
.... 48 1 482 History of Political Economy 23:3 (I991) lenged the institution of private property or the exalted position of the landlords. Instead, they regarded proprietors as valued members of society and as necessary to the development process” (1983,74). George’s position...
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History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (4): 525–550.
Published: 01 November 1987
... of theories or hypotheses yielding predictions about events in the real w~rldWhile both Quesnay and Du Pont were interested in collecting information about agriculture and commerce, they presented their circulation model after postulating the definition of land rent, the proprietor’s net product...
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History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 623–656.
Published: 01 September 1992
..., but not with regard to the quantity produced, as is common today. At the very beginning of chapter 5, the monopolist’s behavior is de- scribed as the search for the best price: “For convenience in discus- sion, suppose that a man finds himself proprietor of a mineral spring which has just been found...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (2): 217–236.
Published: 01 June 1995
... proprietors have the resources to pay taxes. There are in general only two classes of citizens: that of the propri- etors to whom all the land and all production belongs, and that of the employed [salarie‘s),who, having neither land nor the fruits of production, subsist on the incomes...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (2): 209–252.
Published: 01 June 2007
.... ____. 1963 . The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the Making of the New. Journal of Economic History 23.2 : 151 -84. ____. 1964 . The Poor Law Report Reexamined. Journal of Economic History 24.2 : 229 -45. Cliffe-Leslie, T. E. 1874 . Review of A Plea for Peasant Proprietors, by William Thornton...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 419–429.
Published: 01 September 1991
... of the actual proprietors, either by gain or by saving of the wages destined for subsistence. In reviewing the contents of chapter 13 it is useful to start with a brief overview of Cantillon’s theory of value. For Cantillon “the price or intrinsic value of a thing is the measure of the quantity...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (4): 609–640.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Propriétaire. Universal Dictionary (1753, 2:2): Each proprietor manages his own estate, or letts it to one or more farmers, as he sees fit; and the farmer and his assistants must be maintained out of it, and he pays the proprietor the overplus of the produce of the estate; the proprietor pays...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 367–384.
Published: 01 September 1985
... to the farmers as profit, particularly on a large-scale cultivation. Du Pont de Nemours writes that the net product “is divided between the proprietors and the workers” (1764, 78).7 These passages are not isolated nor scattered examples taken from writ- ings of the Physiocrats. On the contrary...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2001
...), the profits that the proprietors endeavor to maximize are as follows: π1(p) = p[F(p) − D2], and π2(p) = p[F(p) − D1], where the expressions [F(p) − D2] and [F(p) − D1] are the residual demand functions considered by proprietors 1 and 2 respectively. The Cournot equilibrium...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 1997
... the Reflections, when Turgot refers to “early times.” The society of the early times includes only “industrious classes,” namely, husbandmen and artisans. In this society, only the one who cultivates land can become the proprietor of its produce. Part of it is used for the proprietor’s own con- sumption...
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (2): 284.
Published: 01 June 1983
... of Wordsworth and Coleridge fostered a near-idolization of small independent proprietors and the virtues of agrarian life. French writers such as Comte and Tocqueville swayed the already susceptible Mill to link small hold- ings with the prudential values and culture essential to a healthy democracy. Mill...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (3): 346–365.
Published: 01 September 1977
... (1974): 133-34; C. J. Dewey, “The Rehabilita- tion of the Peasant Proprietor in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought,” History of Political Economy 6 (1974): 23-29; J. K. Ingram, A History of Political Economy (London, 1923), pp. 139-42; H. W. Spiegel, The Growth of Economic Thought (Englewood...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 599–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Cantillon's understanding of the character of the rent appropriated by the proprietors from those who actually work the land. Cantillon does not explicitly distinguish between what we now call differential rent (the value surplus accruing to the landlord on comparatively good intramarginal land...
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (2): 284–286.
Published: 01 June 1983
...- cerns. His reading of Wordsworth and Coleridge fostered a near-idolization of small independent proprietors and the virtues of agrarian life. French writers such as Comte and Tocqueville swayed the already susceptible Mill to link small hold- ings with the prudential values and culture essential...