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...Francis A. Walker delivered his second lecture on "Land Tenure" in Sever 11, last evening. The lecture consisted of an examination of the common criticisms against the established system of tenure of land, and was mainly a refutation of the theories of Messrs. H. C. Carey, Bastrat and Bouillet. The trouble with Mr. Carey, Gen. Walker said, was that in attempting to refute Ricardo's law, he confused this law with the law of populations; his criticisms were, in fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land...
President Walker gives his second lecture on the question of the "Tenure of Land," in Sever 11 at 7.30 this evening...
Tenure of Land (continued). President Francis A. Walker, of the Mass. Institute of Technology. Sever...
...Francis A. Walker delivered the first of his series of lectures on "Land Tenure" last night in Sever 11. The lecture was devoted to a statement of the origin of rent and its influence on the distribution of wealth. Gen. Walker held, of course, to the regular theory of diminishing returns, and showed that rent depended on the excess of production of the land over the production of the worst land in cultivation; that is, of the land which paid no rent. "Rent," he said, "arises from the fact of the varying degrees of production mutually contributing to the same...
President Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gives the first of his course of lectures on the "Tenure of Land" in Sever 11 this evening...