Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1894 - 591 páginas |
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... object which the author has in view . The design of the book is different from that of any treatise on Political Economy which has been produced in England since the work of Adam Smith . The most characteristic quality of that work ...
... object which the author has in view . The design of the book is different from that of any treatise on Political Economy which has been produced in England since the work of Adam Smith . The most characteristic quality of that work ...
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... object and general conception to that of Adam Smith , but adapted to the more extended knowledge and improved ideas of the present age , is the kind of contribution which Political Economy at present requires . The " Wealth of Nations ...
... object and general conception to that of Adam Smith , but adapted to the more extended knowledge and improved ideas of the present age , is the kind of contribution which Political Economy at present requires . The " Wealth of Nations ...
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... objects , but utilities - 2. which are of three kinds 3. Productive labour is that which produces utilities fixed and em- bodied in material objects 22 333 28 29 30 31 32 33 4. All other labour , however useful , is classed as ...
... objects , but utilities - 2. which are of three kinds 3. Productive labour is that which produces utilities fixed and em- bodied in material objects 22 333 28 29 30 31 32 33 4. All other labour , however useful , is classed as ...
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... object of human desire , is made prosperous or ( the reverse . Not that any treatise on Political Economy can discuss or even enumerate all these causes ; but it undertakes to set forth as much as is known of the laws and principles ac ...
... object of human desire , is made prosperous or ( the reverse . Not that any treatise on Political Economy can discuss or even enumerate all these causes ; but it undertakes to set forth as much as is known of the laws and principles ac ...
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... object of desire . Now , money is itself that power ; while all other things , in a civilized state , seem to confer ... objects of national policy until a late period ) , scarcely any medium of payment except money will serve the ...
... object of desire . Now , money is itself that power ; while all other things , in a civilized state , seem to confer ... objects of national policy until a late period ) , scarcely any medium of payment except money will serve the ...
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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.