Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1894 - 591 páginas |
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... old controversy with the " Quarterly Review " on the condition of landed property in France , which had been subjoined as an Appendix has been dispensed with . CONTENTS . PRELIMINARY REMARKS BOOK I. PRODUCTION . CHAPTER I. vi PREFACE .
... old controversy with the " Quarterly Review " on the condition of landed property in France , which had been subjoined as an Appendix has been dispensed with . CONTENTS . PRELIMINARY REMARKS BOOK I. PRODUCTION . CHAPTER I. vi PREFACE .
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... condition of mankind , or of any society of human beings , in respect to this universal object of human desire , is made prosperous or ( the reverse . Not that any treatise on Political Economy can discuss or even enumerate all these ...
... condition of mankind , or of any society of human beings , in respect to this universal object of human desire , is made prosperous or ( the reverse . Not that any treatise on Political Economy can discuss or even enumerate all these ...
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... condition , as to subsist- ence and comfort , as little enviable as that of the savage . The first great advance beyond this ! state consists in the domestication of the more useful animals ; giving rise to the pastoral or nomad state ...
... condition , as to subsist- ence and comfort , as little enviable as that of the savage . The first great advance beyond this ! state consists in the domestication of the more useful animals ; giving rise to the pastoral or nomad state ...
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... condition of most of the countries of Asia , as it has been from beyond the commencement of authentic history , and is still , wher- ever not disturbed by foreign influ ences . In the agricultural communities of ancient Europe whose ...
... condition of most of the countries of Asia , as it has been from beyond the commencement of authentic history , and is still , wher- ever not disturbed by foreign influ ences . In the agricultural communities of ancient Europe whose ...
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... condition of Asiatic countries ; except that , in lieu of a single monarch and a fluctua ting body of favourites and employés , there was a numerous and in a consider able degree fixed class of great land- holders ; exhibiting far less ...
... condition of Asiatic countries ; except that , in lieu of a single monarch and a fluctua ting body of favourites and employés , there was a numerous and in a consider able degree fixed class of great land- holders ; exhibiting far less ...
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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.