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" The ordinary progress of a society which increases in wealth, is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords ; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community, independently of any trouble or outlay... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 25
1889
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The Building of Satellite Towns: A Contribution to the Study of Town ...

Charles Benjamin Purdom - Cities and towns - 1925 - 456 pages
...for a garden city scheme is a question difficult to determine, and the attempt to answer it would 1 " They grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economising." — Principles of Political Economy (Book V. Ch. II. § $). - Welwyn Garden City provides...
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Papers Relating to Political Economy, Volume 2

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth - Economics - 1925 - 510 pages
...admit the premiss we can hardly reject the inference in what Mill says about the landlords : — " They grow richer, as it were, in their sleep, without working, risking, or economising. What claim have they on the general principles of social justice to this accession of...
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Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities

Hugh Dalton Baron Dalton - Economics - 1925 - 404 pages
...which increases in wealth is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords ; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community."1 But no evidence is advanced in support of this opinion, which was probably taken uncritically...
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The American Economic Review, Volume 16

Economics - 1926 - 510 pages
...society, which he could not deny as having taken place, would not appear to have given the landlords "both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community" than they formerly held. He would be perplexed to find English land selling at such low prices and...
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Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Volumes 38-39

American Economic Association - Economics - 1926 - 610 pages
...society, which he could not deny as having taken place, would not appear to have given the landlords "both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community" than they formerly held. He would be perplexed to find English land selling at such low prices and...
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A History of Socialist Thought

Harry Wellington Laidler - Socialism - 1927 - 780 pages
...society which increases in wealth, is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords. . . . They grow richer, as it were, in their sleep, without...they, on the general principle of social justice, to the accession of riches?" These teachings and those of others gave birth to the organization of the...
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A Review Of Economic Theory

Edwin Cannan - Business & Economics - 1964 - 480 pages
...absurdities were enshrined in a precious sentence of JS Mill's : " They," that is the landlords, " grow richer, as it were, in their sleep, without working, risking or economising " (Principles, ed. Ashley, p. 818). We may well doubt whether, if Mill had been given the...
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Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England ...

Stefan Collini - Political Science - 1979 - 298 pages
...tends to increase, without any exertion or sacrif1ce on the part of the owners'. Landlords, therefore, 'grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking or economizing', and so, argued Mill, it would be 'no violation of the principles on which private property is grounded,...
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Land and the City: Patterns and Processes of Urban Change

Philip Kivell - Architecture - 1993 - 244 pages
...progress of a society which increases in wealth is at all times to augment the income of landlords: they grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking or economising. This view is not without its critics: Denman (1978: 91) for example, argued that land...
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The Working man

370 pages
...which increases in wealth is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords — to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of...were, in their sleep, without working, risking, or economising. What claim have they, on the general principles of social justice, to this accumulation...
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