de Vivo, Giancarlo - In: English, Irish and subversives among the dismal scientists, (pp. 89-110). 2010
On rent, Seligman's claim is based on the fact that in the first edition of the Essay on the External Corn Trade (1815) Torrens conceives rent as a ‘net surplus’, which is undoubtedly true, but not in itself very significant: Adam Smith had already written of rent as surplus produce, and...
