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If a tenant is to be no better off for the improvements he makes on an estate, he will not make the improvements.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If a tenant is to be no better off for the improvements he makes on an estate, he will not make the improvements.”
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Mann explains the disincentive for tenants to improve their property if they do not benefit from it.
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