Rationelle Betriebsführung im Malerhandwerk

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. The Outlook

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER VIII RENT In economics the term “ rent " is not used with its ordinary significance. Ordinarily it means the annual payment made for land or buildings. It therefore stands for a hiring charge : but it is not applied to every hiring charge. If a person hired a brougham he would no more call the charge for it a rent than he would call the rent of his house a hiring charge. This common usage of the term “ rent ” has been determined solely by convention. Economists began with it, but after economic inquiry became more scientific, and the causes of payments began to be investigated, the application of the word “ rent ” in economics suffered restriction. In this study, it was made to refer only to annual or other periodic payments for land, apart from payments for things produced by labour and capital such as houses and farm buildings. The split between common usage and economic usage 194

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