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Unimproved land is land that humans have not modified to make suitable for agriculture.
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Unimproved Land Term Timeline in The Wealth of Nations
The timeline below shows where the term Unimproved Land appears in The Wealth of Nations. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 1, Chapter 11
...land produces, minus the tenant’s cost of subsistence. They charge rent even for infertile or unimproved land, and rent prices aren’t proportional to improvements they make to this land, so rent...
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...Rent.” Besides food, humans’ primary needs are clothing and lodging, which both also require land. Unimproved land can satisfy these needs better than food, but it’s the opposite for improved land. For...
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...rent and profit for raising animals with the revenue from selling those products. But in unimproved countries, most empty land goes to raising animals anyway, and those animals’ wool and hide...
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...country’s land is dedicated to such livestock, which in turn means that this land is unimproved.
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