An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent

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"An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent" is an 1815 economic treatise by Thomas Malthus that analyzes the origins, determinants, and distributional implications of land rent within classical political economy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
economic treatise
non-fiction book
work of political economy
academicDiscipline economic history
economics
addresses distribution between landlords, capitalists, and laborers
relationship between rent and agricultural productivity
relationship between rent and population growth
relationship between rent and profits
author Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus
surface form: Thomas Robert Malthus
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dateWritten 1815
fieldOfStudy political economy
focusesOn determinants of rent
distributional implications of rent
origins of rent
genre classical economics
economics
hasAuthorialOccupation political economist
hasKeyConcept differential rent
scarcity rent
hasPerspective agricultural development
landlord–tenant relations
historicalContext Corn Laws debate
historicalPeriod Industrial Revolution
influenced later theories of rent
nineteenth-century economic thought
influencedBy David Ricardo
classical economists
language English
mainTopic distribution of income
economic rent
land rent
partOf classical rent theory literature
publicationType pamphlet
publicationYear 1815
relatedTo An Essay on the Principle of Population
surface form: Essay on the Principle of Population

Principles of Political Economy
surface form: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
theoreticalFramework classical political economy

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Thomas Malthus notableWork An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent