Selected Readings in EconomicsGinn, 1907 - 705 páginas |
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... cent greater than that of 1905 , 10 per cent over 1904 , 15 per cent over 1903 , and 44 per cent over 1899 . A simple series of index numbers is readily constructed , which shows the progressive movement of wealth production by the ...
... cent greater than that of 1905 , 10 per cent over 1904 , 15 per cent over 1903 , and 44 per cent over 1899 . A simple series of index numbers is readily constructed , which shows the progressive movement of wealth production by the ...
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... cent in production in seven years . The 145,000,000 bushels grown this year may be worth $ 65,000,000 , both bushels and dollars being much more than for the highest preceding years , 1904 being the previous record year for yield and ...
... cent in production in seven years . The 145,000,000 bushels grown this year may be worth $ 65,000,000 , both bushels and dollars being much more than for the highest preceding years , 1904 being the previous record year for yield and ...
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... cent ; and this movement towards the subdivision of the large plantations is likely , in the absence of capital , to carry on extensive operations , to continue until the tenure of the soil shall be relatively even more popular than in ...
... cent ; and this movement towards the subdivision of the large plantations is likely , in the absence of capital , to carry on extensive operations , to continue until the tenure of the soil shall be relatively even more popular than in ...
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... cent are cultivated by their owners . In the Northern States the proportion rises to 80 per cent or even higher . Connecticut , Maine , and Massachusetts , of the New England States , and Wisconsin , Michigan , and Minnesota , of the ...
... cent are cultivated by their owners . In the Northern States the proportion rises to 80 per cent or even higher . Connecticut , Maine , and Massachusetts , of the New England States , and Wisconsin , Michigan , and Minnesota , of the ...
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... cent owned one slave each ; 21 per cent more owned but two or three ; those who owned five slaves or fewer comprised 55 per cent of the entire number ; while 72 per cent had less than ten slaves , including men , women , and children ...
... cent owned one slave each ; 21 per cent more owned but two or three ; those who owned five slaves or fewer comprised 55 per cent of the entire number ; while 72 per cent had less than ten slaves , including men , women , and children ...
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Página 673 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive...
Página 288 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 679 - The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history.
Página 671 - The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.
Página 671 - ... natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — free trade. In one word, for exploitation,...
Página 107 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 59 - Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into the waters of the New World, America has been another name for opportunity, and the people of the United States have taken their tone from the incessant expansion which has not only been open but has even been forced upon them. He would be a rash prophet who should assert that the expansive character of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been its dominant fact and, unless this training has no effect upon a people, the American...
Página 113 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Página 295 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 681 - The essential condition for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour.