A Project of Empire: A Critical Study of the Economics of Imperialism, with Special Reference to the Ideas of Adam SmithMacmillan, 1909 - 284 páginas |
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... secure the internal the internal tranquillity and happiness of his fellow - citizens for many succeeding generations . " 1 Moral Sentiments , part vi . section ii . chap . ii . See also chap . iii . on " Self Command . " 2 Ibid . C § 8 ...
... secure the internal the internal tranquillity and happiness of his fellow - citizens for many succeeding generations . " 1 Moral Sentiments , part vi . section ii . chap . ii . See also chap . iii . on " Self Command . " 2 Ibid . C § 8 ...
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... secure than if entrusted to the risky credit and the uncertain laws of foreign countries , and , besides , there are the pleasures of the country life and the attractions of the beauties of nature . The experience of England in the ...
... secure than if entrusted to the risky credit and the uncertain laws of foreign countries , and , besides , there are the pleasures of the country life and the attractions of the beauties of nature . The experience of England in the ...
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... secure the monopoly of the home market to the home producer . He set himself to prove that in general the whole system was either useless or hurtful for the attainment of the ultimate object - this ultimate object being the promotion of ...
... secure the monopoly of the home market to the home producer . He set himself to prove that in general the whole system was either useless or hurtful for the attainment of the ultimate object - this ultimate object being the promotion of ...
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... secure a maximum net revenue . In general , in the case of monopoly , the maximum net revenue can only be attained by the contraction of the gross revenue . These are now the commonplaces of economic theory . But the application of any ...
... secure a maximum net revenue . In general , in the case of monopoly , the maximum net revenue can only be attained by the contraction of the gross revenue . These are now the commonplaces of economic theory . But the application of any ...
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... secure the advantages of protection directly to labour . § 8. Profit on Capital requisite for the Employ- ment of Labour . In treating of the relative advantages of employing capital in different modes and in emphasising the superiority ...
... secure the advantages of protection directly to labour . § 8. Profit on Capital requisite for the Employ- ment of Labour . In treating of the relative advantages of employing capital in different modes and in emphasising the superiority ...
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Adam Smith agriculture Alexander Hamilton annual produce Book bounties Britain British Empire carrying trade chap chapter cheapness commercial commodities competition considered consumer Corn Laws countervailing duty customs duties customs union difficulty economic effect employment of capital encouragement England equal example excise expense export favour foreign countries foreign trade freedom of trade gain greater growth high duties home country home industries home labour home market home producer home trade imperial federation imposed increase India interests internal free trade labour and capital land and labour manufactures means ment mercantile system mercantilist merchants method military monopoly mother country national advantage Navigation Act necessary negative argument particular passage point of view present principle productive labour prohibitions protectionist protective duties realised regards regulations repeal retaliation revenue self-governing colonies society surplus taxation taxes theory tion trade of consumption United Kingdom wages Wealth of Nations whole
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Página 264 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Página 207 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 116 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 136 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Página 114 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Página 12 - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. National animosity at that particular time aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom would have recommended, the diminution of the naval power of Holland, the only naval power which could endanger the security of England.
Página 170 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Página 184 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Página 136 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 78 - There may be good policy in retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions complained of. The recovery of a great foreign market will generally more than compensate the transitory inconveniency of paying dearer during a short time for some sorts of goods.