Peasant Rents Being The First Half Of An Essay On The Distribution Of Wealth And On The Sources Of Taxation

Author : Richard Jones
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ISBN 13 : 9781330915417
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Peasant Rents written by Richard Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Peasant Rents: Being the First Half of an Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation Richard Jones, the son of a solicitor at Tunbridge Wells, was born in 1790. He entered Caius College, Cambridge, in 1812, and after receiving his degree in 1816 he took Holy Orders, and was curate successively at various places in Sussex. In 1831 he published Part I. - Rent, of An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Professorship of Political Economy at the newly established King's College, London, and took occasion in his Introductory Lecture (Feb. 27, 1833)to explain his attitude towards contemporary economic speculation. In 1835 he succeeded Malthus as Professor of Political Economy and History at the East India College at Haileybury. Meanwhile he had greatly interested himself in proposals for the Commutation of Tithe, and in 1836 he took a large share in the preparation and defence of the bill finally passed by the government of Lord John Russell. Accordingly he was appointed in that year one of the three Commissioners to whom the execution of the act was intrusted, an office which he retained until the separate existence of the Tithe Commission came to an end in 1851. During these years his energies were mainly engaged in the work of the Commission, involving, besides the routine of administration, the decision of many intricate questions of practice and law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.