Agriculture Quote by Friedrich List

THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check…

— Thomas Malthus

“production capability increases through investment and productivity gains, allowing supply to expand to sustain the growing demand and to generate increasing net incomes. The…

— Edward A. Hudson

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other…

— Will Durant

“... economic growth is driven by supply factors such as improved technologies and access to more or better resources.”

— Campbell McConnell

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the…

— David Ricardo

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity…

— Thomas Malthus

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

— Alexander Hamilton

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

“...industrial growth is the outcome of conscious and sustained human effort about which "dynamic equations" tell us less than nothing. Growth then is the…

— Ludwig Lachmann

“more and better resources going into agriculture allowed food production to increase over the centuries. GDP increased, although along an irregular path, at an…

— Edward A. Hudson

If very fundamental reforms take place, especially when it comes to factors of production like land, labour, then a higher growth rate is possible.

— Urjit Patel