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# Natural Rates of Wages, Profit, and Rent

## Definition

The ordinary or average rates of wages, profit, and rent at a particular time and place, which serve as the component parts of natural price for commodities.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 7

## Context

Defined as the rates that "may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail."

## Economic Domain

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