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ma in realtà petty già nel 1662 nel suo "tractise on taxes and contributions", opponeva l'interesse, inteso come rendita del denaro e chiamato usura (rent of money which we call usury), alla rendita fondiaria e immobiliare (rent of land and houses) e dimostrava ai proprietari di terre, che volevano legalmente comprimere non certo la rendita fondiaria ma la rendita del denaro, la vanità e la sterilità di emanare leggi civili positive contro le leggi della natura (the vanity and fruitlessness of making civil positive law against the law of nature [135]).
in fact, however, as early as 1662, in his treatise on taxes and contributions, petty had counterposed interest, as rent of money which we call usury to rent of land and houses, and lectured the landlords, who wished to keep down by legislation not of course land rent, but the rent of money, on the vanity and fruitlessness of making civil positive law against the law of nature.
