As the practical approach to that fundamental Economic reform--that reform of which its principal and distinguished advocate, Henry George, said that it would not accomplish everything in the way of Economic adjustment, but that without it nothing could be accomplished, for without it every Economic improvement instead of raising Wages raises Rent, instead of increasing the compensation of producers of Artificial Objects increases the values of the Natural Resources from which alone Artificial Objects can be produced and on which alone they can be traded, used or enjoyed--as the practical approach to that fundamental Economic reform the Single Tax policy proposes its application gradually. It aims to substitute by stages the Taxation of Land according to its value as a commodity, for the present unrighteous and obstructive taxation of the actual uses of Land.[6] [6] See “Progress and Poverty,” “Protection or Free Trade,” and “Social Problems,” by Henry George, and “What Is the Single Tax?” by Louis F. Post. Irrespective, however, of Taxation problems or of private _versus_ common rights, and retaining the long-time technical terms for primary Distribution of Wealth--Wages as to Wealth not allocated to Landownership, and Rent as to Wealth so allocated--we may proceed to our study of Rent for Landownership as the secondary allocation of Wealth in Economic Distribution. II. RENT FOR LANDOWNERSHIP For the use of any Land which is more desirable in its natural state than the best to be had for the taking, part of the Wealth produced from and upon it by Labor is allocated, through operation of Natural Economic Law, to the Distributive category for which the technical Economic term is Rent. That allocation of a share of Labor-produced Wealth to Rent necessarily diminishes the proportion allocated to Wages, but it does not necessarily lessen the quantity. Without Rent, Wages takes the whole Product; with Rent, Wages can of course take only a fraction of the whole. Yet as a result of enhancement of Labor-power--specialization, steam, electricity and other productive developments--that fraction of the whole may be greater in amount than the whole in less productive circumstances. Rent is that proportion of total Wealth production which results from the use by Labor of Land lying above the Economic frontier, which in Economic terminology is best known as the Margin of Production.