Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1892 - 640 páginas |
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... 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 the net result is either paid or cred- ited in money : when he retires from ...
... 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 the net result is either paid or cred- ited in money : when he retires from ...
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... portion of the wealth of B. It was wealth to A , and wealth which he could transfer to a third person ; but what he so transferred was in fact a joint ownership , to the extent of a thousand pounds , in the land of which B was nominally ...
... portion of the wealth of B. It was wealth to A , and wealth which he could transfer to a third person ; but what he so transferred was in fact a joint ownership , to the extent of a thousand pounds , in the land of which B was nominally ...
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... portion in store . To this scanty inventory of material wealth , ought to be added their land ; an instrument of ... portions of the in- PRELIMINARY REMARKS . 27 BOOK I PRODUCTION.
... portion in store . To this scanty inventory of material wealth , ought to be added their land ; an instrument of ... portions of the in- PRELIMINARY REMARKS . 27 BOOK I PRODUCTION.
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... portion of time is required for procuring food , and the remainder is not engrossed by anxious thought for the morrow , or necessary repose from muscular activity . Such a life is highly favourable to the growth of new wants , and opens ...
... portion of time is required for procuring food , and the remainder is not engrossed by anxious thought for the morrow , or necessary repose from muscular activity . Such a life is highly favourable to the growth of new wants , and opens ...
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... portion which adheres to the hands employed in col- lecting it , many persons of course participate , besides the im- mediate household of the sovereign . A large part is dis- tributed among the various functionaries of government , and ...
... portion which adheres to the hands employed in col- lecting it , many persons of course participate , besides the im- mediate household of the sovereign . A large part is dis- tributed among the various functionaries of government , and ...
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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...