July 22, 2012 · 1 min
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 19 — Giffen and Sismondi
Land-owning is, beyond all other callings, in the nature of a monopoly.
— ROBERT GIFFEN, Essays. in Finance, First Series, (1871), Chap. X., p. 239.
The nature of landed property, invariably limited, whatever may be the demand of the producers or consumers, gives it the power of a monopoly.
— SISMONDI, Essay on Landed Property, Political Economy (English Edition of 1847), p. 176.