Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1894 - 591 páginas |
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... lower than those of men 233 236 238 240 242 6. Differences of wages arising from restrictive laws , and from combi- nations 243 7. Cases in which wages are fixed by custom 244 · CHAPTER XV . Of Profits . § 1. Profits resolvable into ...
... lower than those of men 233 236 238 240 242 6. Differences of wages arising from restrictive laws , and from combi- nations 243 7. Cases in which wages are fixed by custom 244 · CHAPTER XV . Of Profits . § 1. Profits resolvable into ...
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... lower nomi- nal prices . Money , as money , satisfies no want ; its worth to any one , consists in its being a convenient shape in which to receive his incomings of all sorts , which incomings he afterwards , at the times which suit him ...
... lower nomi- nal prices . Money , as money , satisfies no want ; its worth to any one , consists in its being a convenient shape in which to receive his incomings of all sorts , which incomings he afterwards , at the times which suit him ...
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... lower , not by human strength , but by the force of the wind or of falling water . In this case , natural agents , the wind or the gravitation of the water , are made to do a portion of the work previously done by labour . of this ...
... lower , not by human strength , but by the force of the wind or of falling water . In this case , natural agents , the wind or the gravitation of the water , are made to do a portion of the work previously done by labour . of this ...
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... lower degree . The English , Swiss , German , and Dutch workmen , we find , have all much slower natural comprehension . workmen only , the preference is un- doubtedly due to the English ; because , as we find them , they are all ...
... lower degree . The English , Swiss , German , and Dutch workmen , we find , have all much slower natural comprehension . workmen only , the preference is un- doubtedly due to the English ; because , as we find them , they are all ...
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... lower charges , consist- ently with obtaining the rate of pro- fit now realized . But would it do so ? Even if it did not , the community in the aggregate would still be a gaine r since the shareholders are a part of the community , and ...
... lower charges , consist- ently with obtaining the rate of pro- fit now realized . But would it do so ? Even if it did not , the community in the aggregate would still be a gaine r since the shareholders are a part of the community , and ...
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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.