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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... consequence of this principle , that the amount of subsistence falling to each labourer , or the rate of wages , depends on the proportion which the whole capital bears to the whole labouring population . If capital be in- creased ...
... consequence of this principle , that the amount of subsistence falling to each labourer , or the rate of wages , depends on the proportion which the whole capital bears to the whole labouring population . If capital be in- creased ...
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... consequence , depend more on the supply of money in circula- tion in a country , than on the magnitude of its capital . It is , however , all but indifferent whether the amount of money received by labourers as wages be great or small ...
... consequence , depend more on the supply of money in circula- tion in a country , than on the magnitude of its capital . It is , however , all but indifferent whether the amount of money received by labourers as wages be great or small ...
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... sums have 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.
... sums have 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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... consequence of the facility enjoyed by the Americans of acquiring new land , and of its being more advantageous to cultivate it in the cheapest manner , than to apply improved processes to the old lands . Hence it is that extensive ...
... consequence of the facility enjoyed by the Americans of acquiring new land , and of its being more advantageous to cultivate it in the cheapest manner , than to apply improved processes to the old lands . Hence it is that extensive ...
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... having something like a rea- sonable prospect of being able to maintain the children that may be expected to spring from them . And marriages are , in consequence , very generally deferred to a later period 14 COMPARATIVE INCREASE OF.
... having something like a rea- sonable prospect of being able to maintain the children that may be expected to spring from them . And marriages are , in consequence , very generally deferred to a later period 14 COMPARATIVE INCREASE OF.
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