| George Drysdale - 1876 - 804 pages
...twenty-five years, it will be allowing probably a greater increase than could with reason be expected. In the next twenty-five years it is impossible to suppose, that the reduce could be quadrupled. It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the properties of land. That... | |
| Charles Robert Drysdale - Malthusianism - 1892 - 122 pages
...twenty-five years, it will be allowing probably a greater increase than could with reason be expected. In the next twenty-five years, it is impossible to...improvement of the barren parts would be a work of time and labour; and it must be evident to those who have the slightest acquaintance with agricultural subjects,... | |
| Economics - 1892 - 832 pages
...by excessively careless readers to have put forward the law of diminishing returns when he said, ' The improvement of the barren parts would be a work of time and labour ; and it must be evident to those who have the slightest acquaintance with agricultural subjects,... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1894 - 166 pages
...in the first twenty-five years, I think it will be allowing as much as any person can well demand. In the next twenty-five years, it is impossible to...quadrupled. It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the qualities of land. The very utmost that we can conceive, is, that the increase in the second twenty-five... | |
| Edwin Cannan - Economics - 1903 - 458 pages
...in the first twenty-five years, I think it will be allowing as much as any person can well demand. ' In the next twenty-five years it is impossible to suppose that the produce could be quadrupled.1 It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the qualities of land. The very utmost we... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 pages
...twenty-five years, it will be allowing, probably, a greater increase than could with reason be expected. In the next twenty-five years, it is impossible to...improvement of the barren parts would be a work of time and labour; and it must be evident to those who have the slightest acquaintance with agricultural subjects,... | |
| Walton Hale Hamilton - Economics - 1916 - 914 pages
...first twenty-five years, it will be allowing a greater increase than could with reason be expected. In the next twenty-five years it is impossible to...produce could be quadrupled. It would be contrary to our knowledge of the properties of land. Let us suppose that the yearly additions which might be made... | |
| Edwin Cannan - Economics - 1918 - 320 pages
...years, I think it will be allowing as much as any person can well demand. " In the next twenty -five years it is impossible to suppose that the produce...quadrupled. It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the qualities of land. The very utmost that we can conceive is that the increase in the second twenty-five... | |
| Harold Cox - Demography - 1923 - 268 pages
...be allowing probably a greater increase than could with reason be expected. In the next twenty -five years it is impossible to suppose that the produce...improvement of the barren parts would be a work of time and labour; and it must be evident to those who have the slightest acquaintance with agricultural subjects,... | |
| Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...greater increase than could with reason be expected. In the next twenty-five years 628 PROBLEM ECONOMICS it is impossible to suppose that the produce could be quadrupled. It would be contrary to our knowledge of the properties of land. Let us suppose that the yearly additions which might be made... | |
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