Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1892 - 640 páginas |
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... soil , a law of diminishing return in proportion to the increased application of labour and capital , · 3. Antagonist principle to the law of diminishing return ; the progress of improvements in production , • 229 . 230 235 CHAPTER XIII ...
... soil , a law of diminishing return in proportion to the increased application of labour and capital , · 3. Antagonist principle to the law of diminishing return ; the progress of improvements in production , • 229 . 230 235 CHAPTER XIII ...
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... soil , rent , or profit ? 6. Rent does not enter into the cost of production of agricul- tural produce , . BOOK III . EXCHANGE . CHAPTER I. Of Value . 1. Preliminary remarks , 2. Definitions of Value in Use , Exchange Value , and Price ...
... soil , rent , or profit ? 6. Rent does not enter into the cost of production of agricul- tural produce , . BOOK III . EXCHANGE . CHAPTER I. Of Value . 1. Preliminary remarks , 2. Definitions of Value in Use , Exchange Value , and Price ...
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... soil , produce so great a surplus of food beyond their necessary consumption , as to support any large class of labourers engaged in other departments of industry . The surplus , too , whether small or great , is usually torn from the ...
... soil , produce so great a surplus of food beyond their necessary consumption , as to support any large class of labourers engaged in other departments of industry . The surplus , too , whether small or great , is usually torn from the ...
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... soil the utmost which they knew how to make it yield ; and when their soil was sterile , or after they had reached the limit of its capacity , they often became traders , and bought up the productions of foreign countries , to sell them ...
... soil the utmost which they knew how to make it yield ; and when their soil was sterile , or after they had reached the limit of its capacity , they often became traders , and bought up the productions of foreign countries , to sell them ...
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... while the cultivators of the soil were slaves , or small tenants in a nearly servile condition . From this time the wealth of the empire progressively declined . In the beginning , the public PRELIMINARY REMARKS . 35.
... while the cultivators of the soil were slaves , or small tenants in a nearly servile condition . From this time the wealth of the empire progressively declined . In the beginning , the public PRELIMINARY REMARKS . 35.
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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...