Nonland wealth was also associated with more adoption of both technologies, but the availability of uncultivated land reduced the incentive to employ the productivity-enhancing technologies.

非土地财富也与两种技术的更多采用有关，但是未耕地的可用性降低了采用提高生产率的技术的动力。

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Max Baucus, a powerful senator from Montana, wants to keep a $5 billion permanent disaster fund, a proposal that would enhance the incentive farmers have to plant on unfavourable land.

来自蒙大纳州大权在握的参议员Max Baucus想要留住一个五十亿的永久性灾难基金，这个方案进一步激励那些耕种在不适宜种植的土地的农民的积极性。

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Increasingly, however, the incentive is simply to land a better job in China.

然而，入学动机正越来越变成只是为了在中国找个更好的工作。

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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

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Without ownership, herders have no incentive to protect land from degradation and to invest in land improvements.

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European landowners typically do not own the minerals under their land, so they have little incentive to encourage exploration.

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The incentive: plenty of fertile land for the taking.

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