Marshall's Parable of the Meteoric Stones: Rent, Quasi-Rent and Interest

Marshall defended the classical concepts of land, labor and capital, even though many of his neoclassical contemporaries rejected these old distinctions and explained all factor incomes with a unified and general theory. In his parable of the meteoric stones, Marshall illustrated the principles that...

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Alfred Marshall
Capital
Capital costs
Capital goods
Economic rent
Economic theory
Economic Theory (rent)
Economics
Fixed costs
Income
Income distribution
Interest rates
Land
Land Management
Landlords
Market prices
Parables
Production costs
Reconciliation
Renting & leasing
Supply
Supply & demand
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