Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.

— Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)

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