Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1892 - 640 páginas |
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... ment , · · 2. Three kinds of Difficulty of Attainment , 3. Commodities which are absolutely limited in quantity , 4. Law of their value , the Equation of Demand and Supply , 5. Miscellaneous cases falling under this law , • PAGE • 540 ...
... ment , · · 2. Three kinds of Difficulty of Attainment , 3. Commodities which are absolutely limited in quantity , 4. Law of their value , the Equation of Demand and Supply , 5. Miscellaneous cases falling under this law , • PAGE • 540 ...
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... ment of corn . Corn is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of flour . Flour is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of bread . Bread is an instrument , as a means to the satisfaction of hunger and to the support ...
... ment of corn . Corn is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of flour . Flour is an instrument , being a means to the attainment of bread . Bread is an instrument , as a means to the satisfaction of hunger and to the support ...
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... ment , is characteristic of the extensive monarchies which from a time beyond historical record have occupied the plains of Asia . The government , in those countries , though varying in its qualities according to the accidents of ...
... ment , is characteristic of the extensive monarchies which from a time beyond historical record have occupied the plains of Asia . The government , in those countries , though varying in its qualities according to the accidents of ...
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... ment and its agents as their share of the produce . So lit- erally is this the case , that in some countries the workman , instead of taking his work home , and being paid for it after it is finished , proceeds with his tools to his ...
... ment and its agents as their share of the produce . So lit- erally is this the case , that in some countries the workman , instead of taking his work home , and being paid for it after it is finished , proceeds with his tools to his ...
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... ment called a spindle ; having thus formed a thread , he lays many such threads side by side , and places other similar threads directly across them , so that each passes alternately over and under those which are at right angles to it ...
... ment called a spindle ; having thus formed a thread , he lays many such threads side by side , and places other similar threads directly across them , so that each passes alternately over and under those which are at right angles to it ...
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Página 165 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day.
Página 245 - A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller. The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population.
Página 107 - He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England, has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Página 355 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Página 536 - Happily, there is nothing in the laws of Value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up ; the theory of the subject is complete...
Página 267 - ... as a consequence, that the produce of labour should be apportioned as we now see it, almost in an inverse ratio to the labour — the largest portions to those who have never worked at all, the next largest to those whose work is almost nominal, and so in a descending scale, the remuneration...
Página 166 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 258 - It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
Página 295 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Página 350 - Pau to Moneng. It is all in the hands of little proprietors, without the farms being so small as to occasion a vicious and miserable population. An air of neatness, warmth, and comfort breathes over the whole. It is visible in their new-built houses and stables; in their little gardens; in their hedges; in the courts before their doors; even in the coops for their poultry, and the sties for their hogs. A peasant does not think of rendering his pig comfortable, if his own happiness hang by the thread...