Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1892 - 640 páginas |
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... thing to be rich , another thing to be enlightened , brave , or humane ; that the questions how a nation is made wealthy ... things , indeed , are all indirectly connected , and react upon one another . A people has sometimes become free ...
... thing to be rich , another thing to be enlightened , brave , or humane ; that the questions how a nation is made wealthy ... things , indeed , are all indirectly connected , and react upon one another . A people has sometimes become free ...
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... things imported ; unless they were brought in to be re - exported at a profit , or unless , being the materials or ... thing can ever have appeared credible . It has so happened with the doctrine that money is synonymous with wealth ...
... things imported ; unless they were brought in to be re - exported at a profit , or unless , being the materials or ... thing can ever have appeared credible . It has so happened with the doctrine that money is synonymous with wealth ...
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... things of which he is in the actual enjoyment , but to his command over the general fund of things useful and agreeable ; the power he possesses of providing for any exigency , or obtaining any object of desire . Now , money is itself ...
... things of which he is in the actual enjoyment , but to his command over the general fund of things useful and agreeable ; the power he possesses of providing for any exigency , or obtaining any object of desire . Now , money is itself ...
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... things are for sale ; and one whose fortune is in money , or in things rapidly convertible into it , seems both to him- self and others to possess not any one thing , but all the things which the money places it at his option to ...
... things are for sale ; and one whose fortune is in money , or in things rapidly convertible into it , seems both to him- self and others to possess not any one thing , but all the things which the money places it at his option to ...
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... things , and seek their premises from elementary facts , and not from the forms and phrases of common dis- course . So soon as they asked themselves what is really meant by money - what it is in its essential characters , and the ...
... things , and seek their premises from elementary facts , and not from the forms and phrases of common dis- course . So soon as they asked themselves what is really meant by money - what it is in its essential characters , and the ...
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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...