david ricardo

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The theory of diminishing returns and rent is one of the theory that make David Ricardo become a famous economist. The Ricardo’s law of diminishing returns and theory of rent developed in response to debate over the Corn Laws. Ricardo assumed that the increase in output from each additional worker decreases as the number of workers increases. The situation will occur when the factor of production was saturated the market and when added more of the factor of production, the market will might have a negative increase.

According to David Ricardo, rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of original and indestructible powers of the soil. Ricardo also makes two assumptions which are rent under extensive margin of cultivation and rent at the intensive margin of cultivation.
According to Ricardo, when the rent earned by a landlord is due solely to superior fruitfulness of the land, that rent is called rent on the extensive margin and no one pays rent in a newly settled country in which fertile soil is abundant. The rent is the output ...

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