In order to extend the theory of value and the trade-off property to economic systems with lands, Ricardo reduced their … study to that of productive systems without lands by considering the marginal agricultural methods. Sraffa generalised the …

of land or a mine, which was indeed the way in which rent was treated in bargaining between landowner and tenant. The … paper revives this view of rent, proceeding from its historical basis through Smith’s analysis to arrive at Sraffa …The classical economists usually regarded rent in their analyses as a share of the gross product obtained from the use …

allows us to point at two limits of Ricardo's construction, first in his attempt to get rid of rent in the analysis of … criterion is at the basis of Sraffa's mistake in his reconstruction of the theory of rent, whereas post-Sraffian formalizations … agriculture are determined by means of a rule which has never been stated explicitly by Ricardo's commentators. But the rule also …

equilibria. A general theory of intensive rent is based on a formal parallel with single-product systems without land. …An increase in the demand for agricultural goods leads to the use of more intensive cultivation methods. Though Ricardo …

Within the rich literature that has flowed from Sraffa’s framework of Production of Commodities by means of Commodities …

According to Ricardo, land rent, in a capitalistic system of production, would consist of differential elements only …, thus there would not be absolute rent. The present arti-cle is aimed at discussing this thesis by reconstructing the … theoretical reasons leading Ricardo toward it and by showing how they have been overcome by the more solid foundations which …

This paper presents an alternative to both Sraffa’s and his critics’ interpretations of the nature of Ricardo’s search … for an ‘invariable measure of value’. It points out that Ricardo recognised two causes of change in the relative values of … characterised the first change as the real change and the second change as only an apparent change. The article argues that Ricardo …

satisfies a productivity condition which is expressed in algebraic terms. A parallel is drawn between Ricardo's views on …

One of the foundations of the labour theory of value used by Ricardo in the Principles is that rent does not enter into … cultivated land pays rent, the last dose of capital employed on the land does not and no rent is therefore involved in the price … rent paid on land of the worst quality under cultivation enters into the agricultural product price and so, even in the …