Principles of Political Economy: book 1. Production. book 2. DistributionMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... person anxious to sell an ox , or an ass , offers it for so many sheep or women , or other forms of primitive wealth ; that is to say , he offers a series of alternatives in the matter of payment . But in modern , and we may say in ...
... person anxious to sell an ox , or an ass , offers it for so many sheep or women , or other forms of primitive wealth ; that is to say , he offers a series of alternatives in the matter of payment . But in modern , and we may say in ...
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... persons ; but in the third class the differential charac- teristic is found in the fact that the services only exist whilst being performed , and the pleasures while being enjoyed . ' It cannot , however , be too often insisted on that ...
... persons ; but in the third class the differential charac- teristic is found in the fact that the services only exist whilst being performed , and the pleasures while being enjoyed . ' It cannot , however , be too often insisted on that ...
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... persons engaged in these occupations were at this time bondsmen ; and in case they left the ground or the farm to which they belonged , and as pertaining to which their services were bought or sold , they were liable to be brought back ...
... persons engaged in these occupations were at this time bondsmen ; and in case they left the ground or the farm to which they belonged , and as pertaining to which their services were bought or sold , they were liable to be brought back ...
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... persons returned as indoor domestic servants were no fewer than 1,286,668 , and exceeded the next most numerous group , the agricultural labourers , by some 50 per cent . Out of every 22 persons in the population of all ages 1 was an ...
... persons returned as indoor domestic servants were no fewer than 1,286,668 , and exceeded the next most numerous group , the agricultural labourers , by some 50 per cent . Out of every 22 persons in the population of all ages 1 was an ...
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... persons ; and , accordingly , their charity gradually dwindled , and their hospitality became less profuse . In these circum- stances the price paid for their spiritual services seemed extravagant . " The inferior ranks of the people no ...
... persons ; and , accordingly , their charity gradually dwindled , and their hospitality became less profuse . In these circum- stances the price paid for their spiritual services seemed extravagant . " The inferior ranks of the people no ...
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Página 108 - ... if we examine, I say, all these things, and consider what a variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 404 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Página 50 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 107 - Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or day-labourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will perceive that the number of people of whose industry a part, though but a small part, has been employed in procuring him this accommodation, exceeds all computation. The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, u coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen.
Página 259 - These are the reasons which form the justification in an economical point of view, of property in land. It is seen, that they are only valid, in so far as the proprietor of land is its improver. Whenever, in any country, the proprietor, [Note omitted.] generally speaking, ceases to be the improver, political economy has nothing to say in defence of landed property, as there established. In no sound theory of private property was it ever contemplated that the proprietor of land should be merely a...
Página 369 - There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not in some part of his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements.
Página 121 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
Página 265 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the taxgatherers it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it.
Página 232 - We may say that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract.
Página 186 - The immediate check may be stated to consist in all those customs and all those diseases which seem to be generated by a scarcity of the means of subsistence and all those causes independent of this scarcity, whether of a moral or physical nature, which tend prematurely to weaken and destroy the human frame.