Economic Reconstruction: A Further Development of "A National System of Economics,"Longmans, Green and Company, 1918 - 242 páginas |
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... wealth and not as a science of pro- duction and distribution ; it is here that men of theory and practice intellectually take their point of departure . Now I contend that if these professors were accustomed to think clearly and ...
... wealth and not as a science of pro- duction and distribution ; it is here that men of theory and practice intellectually take their point of departure . Now I contend that if these professors were accustomed to think clearly and ...
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... wealth is mainly concerned with human well - being . The science should therefore be judged by the good it can do to humanity , and this can be its only starting - point . It is for this reason , therefore , that I favour the teachings ...
... wealth is mainly concerned with human well - being . The science should therefore be judged by the good it can do to humanity , and this can be its only starting - point . It is for this reason , therefore , that I favour the teachings ...
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... wealth - man and his necessities are not considered . Man , as Reed bluntly puts it , is regarded as being " merely a fraction of a horse - power . " The demand by labour for an adequate means of subsistence is , after all is said , a ...
... wealth - man and his necessities are not considered . Man , as Reed bluntly puts it , is regarded as being " merely a fraction of a horse - power . " The demand by labour for an adequate means of subsistence is , after all is said , a ...
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... wealth , and most likely to retrograde , if not in some measure supported by the public . There are others , which are essential to the softening of national manners , and stand yet more in need of that support . " When the useful arts ...
... wealth , and most likely to retrograde , if not in some measure supported by the public . There are others , which are essential to the softening of national manners , and stand yet more in need of that support . " When the useful arts ...
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... wealthy neighbour ; but is apt to consider all these capital benefits as so many encroachments on his rights and happiness . A certain degree of education , of reading , of reflection while at work , and of intercourse with persons of ...
... wealthy neighbour ; but is apt to consider all these capital benefits as so many encroachments on his rights and happiness . A certain degree of education , of reading , of reflection while at work , and of intercourse with persons of ...
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Adam Smith advantage agriculture autocracy Britain British civilisation commodities conscription of capital consideration cost course created creative genius currency Democracy division of labour doctrine economic science Edwin Cannan effect of things efficiency employed employment endeavoured England exchangeable values existence export fact facturers favourable free trade freedom German give Government greatest human ideal import duties income tax individuals industry and commerce intellectual interest Ireland Irish statesmen Labour Power Laissez-passer Lensch liberty liquid capital liquidating the National manu manufacturing industry masses who labour matter means ment merchants moral National Debt national productive power National System necessary never object Paul Lensch Peddie physiocrats Political Economy population possess possible present principles profits prosperity pursue reason regard revenue secure social Socialists society System of Economics taxation theory tion United Kingdom wages wealth Wealth of Nations welfare whole workmen
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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.