Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1894 - 591 páginas |
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... already exist , may be thought to require some explanation . It might perhaps be sufficient to say , that no existing treatise on Political Economy contains the latest improvements which have been made in the theory of the subject ...
... already exist , may be thought to require some explanation . It might perhaps be sufficient to say , that no existing treatise on Political Economy contains the latest improvements which have been made in the theory of the subject ...
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... already in the state of money , are capable of being directly converted into it . Ac- cording to the doctrines then preva- lent , whatever tended to heap up money or bullion in a country added to its wealth . Whatever sent the precious ...
... already in the state of money , are capable of being directly converted into it . Ac- cording to the doctrines then preva- lent , whatever tended to heap up money or bullion in a country added to its wealth . Whatever sent the precious ...
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... already become agricul tural ; until , these having become suf- ficiently powerful to repel such inroads , the invading nations , deprived of this outlet , were obliged also to become agricultural communities . But after this great step ...
... already become agricul tural ; until , these having become suf- ficiently powerful to repel such inroads , the invading nations , deprived of this outlet , were obliged also to become agricultural communities . But after this great step ...
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... Already , in the later times of the Roman empire , predial slavery had extensively transformed itself into a kind of serfdom : the coloni of the Romans were rather villeins than actual slaves ; and the incapacity and distaste of the ...
... Already , in the later times of the Roman empire , predial slavery had extensively transformed itself into a kind of serfdom : the coloni of the Romans were rather villeins than actual slaves ; and the incapacity and distaste of the ...
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... already , is without doubt destined to become indefinitely greater . He exerts this power either by availing himself of natural forces in existence , or by arranging objects in those mixtures and combinations by which natural forces are ...
... already , is without doubt destined to become indefinitely greater . He exerts this power either by availing himself of natural forces in existence , or by arranging objects in those mixtures and combinations by which natural forces are ...
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Página 483 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 573 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Página 556 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Página 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Página 575 - Now any wellintentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should therefore be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously demand. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.