Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1892 - 640 páginas |
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... become free , because it had first grown wealthy ; or wealthy , because it had first become free . The creed and laws of a people act power- fully upon their economical condition ; and this again , by its influence on their mental ...
... become free , because it had first grown wealthy ; or wealthy , because it had first become free . The creed and laws of a people act power- fully upon their economical condition ; and this again , by its influence on their mental ...
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... becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurd- ity , that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible . It has so happened with the doctrine that money is synonymous with wealth . The ...
... becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurd- ity , that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible . It has so happened with the doctrine that money is synonymous with wealth . The ...
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... become familiar with certain modes of stating and of contemplating econom- ical phenomena , which have only found ... becomes richer or poorer , are reckoned as the coming in or going out of so much money . It is true that in the in ...
... become familiar with certain modes of stating and of contemplating econom- ical phenomena , which have only found ... becomes richer or poorer , are reckoned as the coming in or going out of so much money . It is true that in the in ...
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... become at the expense of the rest of the community , all persons else would be poorer by all that they were compelled to pay for what they had before obtained without payment . This leads to an important distinction in the meaning of ...
... become at the expense of the rest of the community , all persons else would be poorer by all that they were compelled to pay for what they had before obtained without payment . This leads to an important distinction in the meaning of ...
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... become agri- cultural ; until , these having become sufficiently powerful to repel such inroads , the invading nations , deprived of this out- let , were obliged also to become agricultural communities . But after this great step had ...
... become agri- cultural ; until , these having become sufficiently powerful to repel such inroads , the invading nations , deprived of this out- let , were obliged also to become agricultural communities . But after this great step had ...
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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...