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Rack-rent   Listen
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Rack-rent  v. t.  To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.






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... highly civilised that they would no longer be willing to compete with one another so as to injure one another's business: they would out of pure goodwill organise into a "monopoly," and working this monopoly for the exclusive interest of themselves and their employees, rack-rent the consuming public; or if their benevolence extended to all their customers they would socialise their business, conducting it for the greatest good of all society. Such a form of socialised industry, dependent upon the moral character of perishable individuals, would possess all the ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson



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