Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1Colonial Press, 1899 |
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... amount of business , and turning over his capital rapidly , has but a small portion of it in ready money at any one time . But he only feels it valuable to him as it is convertible into money : he considers no transaction closed until ...
... amount of business , and turning over his capital rapidly , has but a small portion of it in ready money at any one time . But he only feels it valuable to him as it is convertible into money : he considers no transaction closed until ...
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... the market for the full amount of the debt . But it is not wealth to the coun- try ; if the engagement were annulled , the country would be neither poorer nor richer . The mortgagee would have lost PRELIMINARY REMARKS 7.
... the market for the full amount of the debt . But it is not wealth to the coun- try ; if the engagement were annulled , the country would be neither poorer nor richer . The mortgagee would have lost PRELIMINARY REMARKS 7.
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... amount made to appear greater than it is by almost thirty millions . A country , how- ever , may include in its wealth all stock held by its citizens in the funds of foreign countries , and other debts due to them from abroad . But even ...
... amount made to appear greater than it is by almost thirty millions . A country , how- ever , may include in its wealth all stock held by its citizens in the funds of foreign countries , and other debts due to them from abroad . But even ...
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... amount of transformation which natural substances undergo before being brought into the shape in which they are directly applied to human use , varies from this or a still less degree of alteration in the nature and appearance of the ...
... amount of transformation which natural substances undergo before being brought into the shape in which they are directly applied to human use , varies from this or a still less degree of alteration in the nature and appearance of the ...
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... amount of service to be paid for : whereas a better consideration of the subject would have shown that the reason why the use of land bears a price is simply the limitation of its quantity , and that if air , heat , electricity ...
... amount of service to be paid for : whereas a better consideration of the subject would have shown that the reason why the use of land bears a price is simply the limitation of its quantity , and that if air , heat , electricity ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith advantage agricultural amount applied Arthur Young capital capitalist causes circulating capital condition considerable consumed consumption cultivation degree demand desire of accumulation diminished duction Economy of France effect employment England equal exertion exist expense farmer favorable flax France funds greater gross produce human hundred quarters idle class improvement increase individual industry instruments Ireland kind labor employed laboring classes land landlord less limited mankind manufactures manure material means ment métayer mode necessary objects obtained occupation operations paid peasant proprietors persons plough political economy Poor Law population portion possession present principle productive consumers productive labor productive power profit proportion quantity quired remuneration render rent require saving slavery small farms society soil subsistence sufficient supply suppose surplus taxes things tillage tion tivation tive Tuscany unless unproductive wages wealth whole workmen
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Página 197 - 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 273 - 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 420 - every speculation respecting the economical interests of a society thus constituted implies some theory of Value : the smallest error on that subject infects with corresponding error all our other conclusions ; and anything vague or misty in our conception of it creates confusion and uncertainty in everything
Página 122 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 293 - The landlord is no doubt liable in the end to suffer from their poverty, by being forced to make advances to them, especially in bad seasons ; and a foresight of this ultimate inconvenience may operate beneficially on such landlords as prefer future security to present profit.
Página 335 - The condition of the class can be bettered in no other way than by altering that proportion to their advantage ; and every scheme for their benefit which does not proceed on this as its foundation, is, for all permanent purposes, a delusion.
Página 311 - ... of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Página 235 - This is partly intelligible, if we consider that only through the principle of competition has political economy any pretension to the character of a science.
Página 288 - ... to the most effective use of the powers of the soil ; that no other existing state of agricultural economy has so beneficial an effect on the industry, the intelligence, the frugality, and prudence of the population, nor tends on the whole so much to discourage an improvident increase of their numbers ; and that no existing state, therefore, is on the whole so favourable, both to their moral and their physical welfare.
Página 371 - A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.