Background
West, Edward was born in 1782 in London, England.
West, Edward was born in 1782 in London, England.
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts University Oxford, 1804, 1807.
He is famous for his statement of the law of diminishing returns in his Essay on the Application of Capital to Land (1815, p 2): “The principle is simply this, that in the progress of the improvement of cultivation the raising of rude produce becomes progressively more expensive, or, in other words, the ratio of the Netto produce of land to its gross produce is constantly diminishing.” (The gross produce means the value of total output and the Netto is the gross minus the cost of production and exclusive of profit and rent).
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