CHAPTER 15. THE CAPITALIZATION OF ALL FORMS OF RENT

1. What relation is there between the rate of interest and the price of

land bearing a given rental?

2. If a $100 share of railroad stock sells at par when interest on loans

is at 5%, what will be its price when interest rises to 6%? When

interest falls to 4%?

3. If a business is very successful and its dividends double, what will

be the effect on the selling price of its stock?

NOTE.--The subject is almost foreign to the standard works

on economics, which have continued to look upon capital as

primary, and its income as derived. Numerous recent

articles will be found, however, dealing with concrete

problems where the logical and the practical views are seen

to be the same; _e.g._, W. Z. Ripley, _Quarterly Journal of

Economics_, Vol. XV, p. 106 (1900), article on "The

Capitalization of Public Service Corporations"; also

article in _Engineering News_, Vol. XXVIII, p. 492

(November, 1892).

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