“for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.”

—  David Ricardo

Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter XXIV, The Rent of Land, p. 220

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