Selected Readings in EconomicsGinn, 1907 - 705 páginas |
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... Commodities as Money : The Metals 394 6. Barter Currency in North Carolina 398 7. Why Coinage is Necessary 8. Representative Money . XV . PAPER MONEY IN FRANCE . By Andrew D. White XVI . THE REGULATION OF A BANK - NOTE CURRENCY . By J ...
... Commodities as Money : The Metals 394 6. Barter Currency in North Carolina 398 7. Why Coinage is Necessary 8. Representative Money . XV . PAPER MONEY IN FRANCE . By Andrew D. White XVI . THE REGULATION OF A BANK - NOTE CURRENCY . By J ...
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... commodities on the laws of demand and supply , was busily elaborating a new problem , the use of a novel power , which was to revolutionize the world . The elasticity of hot water had long been noticed , and for a century and a half ...
... commodities on the laws of demand and supply , was busily elaborating a new problem , the use of a novel power , which was to revolutionize the world . The elasticity of hot water had long been noticed , and for a century and a half ...
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... commodity whose extended use was gradually revolutionizing the world ; and the population of the world , as the first conse- quence of the change , gradually moved towards the coal fields . 4. The Growth of the Factory System in the ...
... commodity whose extended use was gradually revolutionizing the world ; and the population of the world , as the first conse- quence of the change , gradually moved towards the coal fields . 4. The Growth of the Factory System in the ...
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... commodity is essential to our existence or our comfort that the limit to our gratification is soonest reached . Our most irrepressible appetites are the most quickly satisfied . Our most insatiable desires are the most easily repressed ...
... commodity is essential to our existence or our comfort that the limit to our gratification is soonest reached . Our most irrepressible appetites are the most quickly satisfied . Our most insatiable desires are the most easily repressed ...
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... commodity possess equal utility . Water , for instance , may be roughly described as the most useful of all substances . A quart of water per day has the high utility of sav- ing a person from dying in a most distressing manner ...
... commodity possess equal utility . Water , for instance , may be roughly described as the most useful of all substances . A quart of water per day has the high utility of sav- ing a person from dying in a most distressing manner ...
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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.