A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring ClassesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 114 páginas |
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... obtain any accurate estimates of the quantities of capital in countries at different periods ; but the capacity of that capital to feed and employ labourers , and the rate of its increase , may , notwithstanding , be learned with ...
... obtain any accurate estimates of the quantities of capital in countries at different periods ; but the capacity of that capital to feed and employ labourers , and the rate of its increase , may , notwithstanding , be learned with ...
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... been expended upon its improvement ; and it cannot be obtained except at a high price . Additional supplies of food are in consequence raised with much greater difficulty in old than in newly 10 COMPARATIVE INCREASE OF.
... been expended upon its improvement ; and it cannot be obtained except at a high price . Additional supplies of food are in consequence raised with much greater difficulty in old than in newly 10 COMPARATIVE INCREASE OF.
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... obtained from the best lands under wheat in England and Wales varied from thirty - six to forty bushels an acre ; while that obtained from the inferior lands did not exceed eight or ten bushels . But in past times , when the population ...
... obtained from the best lands under wheat in England and Wales varied from thirty - six to forty bushels an acre ; while that obtained from the inferior lands did not exceed eight or ten bushels . But in past times , when the population ...
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... obtain supplies of new land , a better and more careful system of tillage will be applied to the old land . Still , however , there can be no doubt that , partly from the farmers being the owners of the land which they culti- vate ...
... obtain supplies of new land , a better and more careful system of tillage will be applied to the old land . Still , however , there can be no doubt that , partly from the farmers being the owners of the land which they culti- vate ...
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... obtain the necessary funds from its subjects , either by loans or taxes . It is plain , therefore , that its interference adds nothing whatever to the capital of the country . At best , it merely substitutes one sort of superintendence ...
... obtain the necessary funds from its subjects , either by loans or taxes . It is plain , therefore , that its interference adds nothing whatever to the capital of the country . At best , it merely substitutes one sort of superintendence ...
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