Selected Readings in EconomicsGinn, 1907 - 705 páginas |
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... give a sketch of the physical conditions of this continent , with reference to the transplanted civilization that has developed upon its soil . It will be impos- sible , within the limits of this essay , to do more than indicate these ...
... give a sketch of the physical conditions of this continent , with reference to the transplanted civilization that has developed upon its soil . It will be impos- sible , within the limits of this essay , to do more than indicate these ...
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... give a large place to this absence of upland swamps and the dryness of the for- ests , which prevented the growth of peaty matter within their bounds . The success of the first settlements in America was also greatly aided by the fact ...
... give a large place to this absence of upland swamps and the dryness of the for- ests , which prevented the growth of peaty matter within their bounds . The success of the first settlements in America was also greatly aided by the fact ...
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... give with free hands in this region , yet it offered some advantages to the early settlers . The general stub- bornness of the soil made the coast Indians few in number , while its isolation secured it from the more powerful tribes THE ...
... give with free hands in this region , yet it offered some advantages to the early settlers . The general stub- bornness of the soil made the coast Indians few in number , while its isolation secured it from the more powerful tribes THE ...
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... gives not more than half the return that may be had from them in Virginia . Were it not for the cotton crop , the lowland South would have fared badly . All the shore belt of country is unwholesome , being affected with pernicious ...
... gives not more than half the return that may be had from them in Virginia . Were it not for the cotton crop , the lowland South would have fared badly . All the shore belt of country is unwholesome , being affected with pernicious ...
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... gives any additional healthfulness , and the additional cold is hurtful to most crops . In this southern region , however , the greater height and width of the Appalachian mountain system , including its elevated valleys , is a very ...
... gives any additional healthfulness , and the additional cold is hurtful to most crops . In this southern region , however , the greater height and width of the Appalachian mountain system , including its elevated valleys , is a very ...
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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.