Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[530]. W. of N., II. iii. 148, 1.

[531]. Essay, 1st ed., p. 363.

[532]. Tract on Rent, p. 16; Essay on Pop. (7th ed.), p. 327. Cf. above.

[533]. Rent, p. 20; cf. pp. 18, 57. Essay on Pop., 2nd ed., p. 433; 7th ed., p. 327. “If we look only to the clear monied rent,” &c.

[534]. Ricardo, Preface to Principles of Pol. Econ. and Taxation.

[535]. Reprinted by MacCulloch in his edition of Pol. Econ. and Taxation, pp. 367–390.

[536]. MacCulloch ed. of Pol. Econ. and Taxation, p. 374 n.

[537]. Ibid., p. 371.

[538]. So Prof. Rogers ascribes the high rents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries very largely to the low wages; higher ones would have “reduced rent first, and profits afterwards.”—Six Centuries, p. 482; cf. pp. 480 and 492.

[539]. Pol. Econ. (1820), p. 161 (ch. iii. sect. iii.).