Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1892 - 640 páginas |
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... thousand pounds . All income and expenditure , all gains and losses , everything by which one becomes richer or poorer , are reckoned as the coming in or going out of so much money . It is true that in the in- ventory of a person's ...
... thousand pounds . All income and expenditure , all gains and losses , everything by which one becomes richer or poorer , are reckoned as the coming in or going out of so much money . It is true that in the in- ventory of a person's ...
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... thousand pounds on a landed estate . This is wealth to the person to whom it brings in a revenue , and who could perhaps sell it in the market for the full amount of the debt . But it is not wealth to the country ; if the engagement ...
... thousand pounds on a landed estate . This is wealth to the person to whom it brings in a revenue , and who could perhaps sell it in the market for the full amount of the debt . But it is not wealth to the country ; if the engagement ...
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... into cloth . But an axe is not destroyed as an axe by cutting down a tree : it may be used afterwards to cut down a hundred or a thousand more ; and though deterio- rated in some small degree by each use , it 60 BOOK I. CHAPTER II . § 4 .
... into cloth . But an axe is not destroyed as an axe by cutting down a tree : it may be used afterwards to cut down a hundred or a thousand more ; and though deterio- rated in some small degree by each use , it 60 BOOK I. CHAPTER II . § 4 .
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... For example , let property of the value of ten thousand pounds belonging to A , be lent to B , a farmer or manufac- turer , and employed profitably in B's occupation . It is as much capital as if it belonged to B. A , CAPITAL . 89.
... For example , let property of the value of ten thousand pounds belonging to A , be lent to B , a farmer or manufac- turer , and employed profitably in B's occupation . It is as much capital as if it belonged to B. A , CAPITAL . 89.
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... thousand pounds is employed in production - in maintaining labourers and providing tools and materials ; which capital belongs to A , while B takes the trouble of employing it , and receives for his remunera- tion the difference between ...
... thousand pounds is employed in production - in maintaining labourers and providing tools and materials ; which capital belongs to A , while B takes the trouble of employing it , and receives for his remunera- tion the difference between ...
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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...