Economic Reconstruction: A Further Development of "A National System of Economics,"Longmans, Green and Company, 1918 - 242 páginas |
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... Foreign Markets N.B. - Each of the above headings can of course be very largely subdivided . BASED ON FREEDOM OF FOREIGN TRADE IMPORT DUTIES BASED ON RESTRICTION OF FOREIGN TRADE High Tariff Duties Prohibition Free Imports Low Tariff ...
... Foreign Markets N.B. - Each of the above headings can of course be very largely subdivided . BASED ON FREEDOM OF FOREIGN TRADE IMPORT DUTIES BASED ON RESTRICTION OF FOREIGN TRADE High Tariff Duties Prohibition Free Imports Low Tariff ...
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... of which men of theory might be brought into contact with practical business men in reviewing our National System of Commerce , and in studying the effect which our Foreign Policy and Agreements may have upon that PRELIMINARY ESSAY 7.
... of which men of theory might be brought into contact with practical business men in reviewing our National System of Commerce , and in studying the effect which our Foreign Policy and Agreements may have upon that PRELIMINARY ESSAY 7.
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... Foreign Policy and Agreements may have upon that system from time to time . The point I am endeavouring to make clear is this , that there can be no two sciences upon the same subject ; and if a Ministry of Economics were to be founded ...
... Foreign Policy and Agreements may have upon that system from time to time . The point I am endeavouring to make clear is this , that there can be no two sciences upon the same subject ; and if a Ministry of Economics were to be founded ...
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... foreign travel and study , and some years of Socialist journalism , entered the Reichstag at the last General Election in 1912. Lensch , still only forty - five years of age , and exempt from military service although he did his ...
... foreign travel and study , and some years of Socialist journalism , entered the Reichstag at the last General Election in 1912. Lensch , still only forty - five years of age , and exempt from military service although he did his ...
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... foreign industrial products from the home market , and gave our own industry predominance , and then complete domination , of the German market . At the same time it created the conditions which gave German industry an organised ...
... foreign industrial products from the home market , and gave our own industry predominance , and then complete domination , of the German market . At the same time it created the conditions which gave German industry an organised ...
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Página 111 - Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools.
Página 201 - Smith expresses it) to ascertain " the general principles which " ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of
Página 116 - As IT IS THE power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent of the market.
Página 215 - Now Roman is to Roman More hateful than a foe, And the Tribunes beard the high. And the Fathers grind the low. As we wax hot in faction, In battle we wax cold ; Wherefore men fight not as they fought In the brave days of old.
Página 115 - The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions BO much the cause as the effect of the division of labor.
Página 111 - The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily ac-quired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life, renders him almost always slothful and lazy and incapable of any vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions.
Página 97 - If the rod be bent too much one way, says the proverb, in order to make it straight you must bend it as much the other. The French philosophers, who have proposed the system which represents agriculture as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every country, seem to have adopted this proverbial maxim; and as in the plan of Mr.
Página 110 - I am assured, be able to make above two or three hundred in a day, and those, too, very bad ones. A smith who has been accustomed to make nails, but whose sole or principal business has not been that of a nailer, can seldom with his utmost diligence make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day.
Página 109 - This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances : first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 114 - Many improvements have been made by the ingenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the business of a peculiar trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of speculation, whose trade it is, not to do anything, but to observe everything ; and who, upon that account, are often capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects.