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An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by Which It is Regulated

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Дата написания1970-01-01
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В трактате Томаса Роберта Мальтуса рассматривается природа аренды и прибыли, их взаимосвязь с экономическим развитием и ролью налогов, капитала и собственности. Автор критикует традиционные монопольные представления о ренте и подчёркивает, что арендная плата формируется из избыточного производства, а не из монополии. Он также различает прибыль фермеров и ренту землевладельцев, анализируя влияние капитала и безопасности собственности на сельское хозяйство.

Главный конфликт / проблема

Какова природа аренды и прибыли, и как они влияют на экономику и производство?

Ключевые идеи

  • Аренда земли – часть национального дохода, но не монополия.
  • Высокая цена сырья обусловлена природными особенностями почвы и спросом, а не монопольным контролем.
  • Рост аренды связан с накоплением капитала, ростом населения и улучшением сельского хозяйства.
  • Налоги на сельскохозяйственный капитал могут замедлять развитие и уменьшать аренду.
  • Переоценка аренды без учёта временных колебаний цен приводит к потере земли и снижению производства.
  • Земля может приносить только прибыль и труд, а не обязательно ренту.
  • Недостаток капитала и безопасности собственности снижает усилия земледельцев и рост населения.
  • Прибыль и рента – разные экономические явления, их следует различать.
  • Высокие цены на зерно и труд взаимосвязаны, но не полностью независимы.
  • Переизбыток прибыли может вести к расточительности, но в целом является источником накопления капитала.

Вывод

Аренда и прибыль – не одно и то же; их уровень определяется балансом между ценой сырья, затратами и капиталом, а не монополией; экономические политики должны учитывать эти факторы.

Кому полезна

  • Экономисты
  • Историки экономической мысли
  • Студенты экономических дисциплин
  • Политики
  • Исследователи сельского хозяйства

Главные темы

  • Аренда как часть национального дохода
  • Различие между рентой и прибылью
  • Влияние налогов и капитала на сельское хозяйство
  • Критика традиционных экономических теорий

Персонажи

  • Томас Роберт Мальтус — Экономист, анализирующий взаимосвязь ренты, прибыли и производства, показывает, как аренда связана с природными факторами и экономическим развитием.
  • Адам Смит — Представлен как автор, который частично понимает аренду, но не полностью объясняет её причины. Мальтус критикует его взгляды на прибыль и драгоценные металлы.
  • Мистер Колчон — Предоставил статистику, подтверждающую соотношение стоимости земли и производства.
  • Сэр Джон Синклер — Предоставил сведения о повышении производства и доли рент в Шотландии.
  • Артур Ян — Предоставил доказательства, подтверждающие аргументы Мальтуса.

Цитаты

  • «The rent of land is a portion of the national revenue, which has always been considered as of very high importance.»
  • «The high price of raw produce, which occasions rent, is as injurious to the consumer as it is advantageous to the landlord.»
  • «Я не могу согласиться с тем, что вся земля, приносящая пищу, обязательно приносит ренту.»
  • «Прибыль – это избыточный доход, который не пропорционален потребностям владельцев капитала.»

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T. R. Malthus An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by Which It is Regulated

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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 the discussions which are going on respecting the corn laws, and the effects of rent on the price of raw produce, and the progress of agricultural improvement.

The rent of land may be defined to be that portion of the value of the whole produce which remains to the owner of the land, after all the outgoings belonging to its cultivation, of whatever kind, have been paid, including the profits of the capital employed, estimated according to the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock at the time being.

It sometimes happens, that from accidental and temporary circumstances, the farmer pays more, or less, than this; but this is the point towards which the actual rents paid are constantly gravitating, and which is therefore always referred to when the term is used in a general sense.

The immediate cause of rent is obviously the excess of price above the cost of production at which raw produce sells in the market.

The first object therefore which presents itself for inquiry, is the cause or causes of the high price of raw produce.

After very careful and repeated revisions of the subject, I do not find myself able to agree entirely in the view taken of it, either by Adam Smith, or the Economists; and still less, by some more modern writers.

Almost all these writers appear to me to consider rent as too nearly resembling in its nature, and the laws by which it is governed, the excess of price above the cost of production, which is the characteristic of a monopoly.

Adam Smith, though in some parts of the eleventh chapter of his first book he contemplates rent quite in its true light,1 and has interspersed through his work more just observations on the subject than any other writer, has not explained the most essential cause of the high price of raw produce with sufficient distinctness, though he often touches on it; and by applying occasionally the term monopoly to the rent of land, without stopping to mark its more radical peculiarities, he leaves the reader without a definite impression of the real difference between the cause of the high price of the necessaries of life, and of monopolized commodities.

Some of the views which the Economists have taken of the nature of rent appear to me, in like manner, to be quite just; but they have mixed them with so much error, and have drawn such preposterous and contradictory conclusions from them, that what is true in their doctrines, has been obscured and lost in the mass of superincumbent error, and has in consequence produced little effect. Their great practical conclusion, namely, the propriety of taxing exclusively the net rents of the landlords, evidently depends upon their considering these rents as completely disposable, like that excess of price above the cost of production which distinguishes a common monopoly.

M. Say, in his valuable treatise on political economy, in which he has explained with great clearness many points which have not been sufficiently developed by Adam Smith, has not treated the subject of rent in a manner entirely satisfactory. In speaking of the different natural agents which, as well as the land, co-operate with the labours of man, he observes, 'Heureusement personne n'a pu dire le vent et le soleil m'appartiennent, et le service qu'ils rendent doit m'etre paye.' 2 And, though he acknowledges that, for obvious reasons, property in land is necessary, yet he evidently considers rent as almost exclusively owing to such appropriation, and to external demand.

In the excellent work of M. de Sismondi, De la richesse commerciale, he says in a note on the subject of rent, 'Cette partie de la rente fonciere est celle que les Economistes ont decoree du nom du produit net comme etant le seul fruit du travail qui aj outat quelquechose a la richesse nationale. On pourrait au contraire soutenir contre eux, que c'est la seule partie du produit du travail, dont la valeur soit purement nominale, et n'ait rien de reelle: c'est en effet le resultat de l'augmentation de prix qu'obtient un vendeur en vertu de son privilege, sans que la chose vendue en vaille reellement d'avantage.' 3 The prevailing opinions among the more modern writers in our own country, have appeared to me to incline towards a similar view of the subject; and, not to multiply citations, I shall only add, that in a very respectable edition of the Wealth of nations, lately published by Mr Buchanan, of Edinburgh, the idea of monopoly is pushed still further. And while former writers, though they considered rent as governed by the laws of monopoly, were still of opinion that this monopoly in the case of land was necessary and useful, Mr Buchanan sometimes speaks of it even as prejudicial, and as depriving the consumer of what it gives to the landlord.

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