Accumulation Quote by Joan Robinson

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a…

— David Ricardo

When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same…

— Louis O. Kelso

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

— Benjamin Tucker

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

— Ludwig von Mises

“In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.”

— Thomas Sowell

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the…

— John Stuart Mill

A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks…

— Doug Henwood

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

— John Stuart Mill

“Valuing freedom above all else; entrepreneurs work harder to create future freedom, which directly takes away from their freedom in the present.”

— Chandler Bolt

“Private property and capitalism also provide strong incentives to preserve resources for the future, whereas political resource allocation under democracy tends toward immediate gratification.”

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

— Robert Peel

“For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties; it was possible to skimp on…

— Matthew Desmond