Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tenure of Land (concluded). President Francis A. Walker, of the Mass. Institute of Technology. Sever...
...plot of land in the rear of Felton Hall is to be laid out in tennis courts for the use of the students rooming there...
...Economic Effects of Land Tenures in England, Ireland, France and Germany.-Theses. Once a week, counting as a half course. Asst. Professor Laughlin...
...lecture last night was principally an answer to Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." Gen. Walker first commented on the position taken by Mr. Mill in his later years on the land tenure question, and then gave a complete statement of Mr. George's theory of rent and the nationalization of the land. As to Mr. George's three great arguments, he affirms that commercial disturbances are due to speculations in land. This assertion, however, has no evidence to support it, and is opposed to the opinions of all economists. Land is far from being an object peculiarly subject...
...main proposition of Mr. George is this: Irrespective of the increase of population, improvements in the productive powers increases rent, and is thus opposed to the interest of the laborer. But if, as Mr. George asserts, in order to produce wealth both labor and land are necessary, will not an increase of wealth call for more labor as well as for more land. Mr. George neglects to think of the increased call for labor. But as a fact it is not true that an increase of wealth always calls for an increased demand for land. Increased production of wealth never...