David Ricardo's 1817 treatise, which set out his theory of rent and the observation that successive equal increments of a variable input applied to a fixed input eventually yield smaller and smaller increases in output, later systematized as the law of diminishing marginal returns.
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On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
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