Outlines of Political Economy: Being a Republication of the Article Upon that Subject Contained in the Edinburgh Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Together with Notes Explanatory and Critical, and a Summary of the ScienceWilder & Campbell, 1825 - 188 páginas |
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... prosperity , by science and professional labours . The impor- tance of these considerations will be afterward shown ; at present it is suf- ficient to point it out , as a defect in the definition . The latter clause is also superfluous ...
... prosperity , by science and professional labours . The impor- tance of these considerations will be afterward shown ; at present it is suf- ficient to point it out , as a defect in the definition . The latter clause is also superfluous ...
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... prosperity of individuals , and consequently of nations , does not depend nearly so much on salubrity of climate , or on the fertility and conve- nient situation of the soils they inhabit , as on the power pos- sessed by them , of ...
... prosperity of individuals , and consequently of nations , does not depend nearly so much on salubrity of climate , or on the fertility and conve- nient situation of the soils they inhabit , as on the power pos- sessed by them , of ...
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... prosperity . The intercourse between the different countries was extremely limited , and was rather confined to marauding excursions , and a piratical scramble for the precious metals , than to a commerce founded on the gratifi- cation ...
... prosperity . The intercourse between the different countries was extremely limited , and was rather confined to marauding excursions , and a piratical scramble for the precious metals , than to a commerce founded on the gratifi- cation ...
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... prosperity , and the means by which they may be ren- dered most productive . * Though public and not private wealth , as our author justly observes , be the object of inquiry , yet from the analogy that subsists between them , an ...
... prosperity , and the means by which they may be ren- dered most productive . * Though public and not private wealth , as our author justly observes , be the object of inquiry , yet from the analogy that subsists between them , an ...
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... prosperity ; every where else it has deluged the earth with blood , and has depopulated and ruined some of those countries whose power and opulence it was supposed it would carry to the highest pitch . " -- ( Storch , Traitè d ...
... prosperity ; every where else it has deluged the earth with blood , and has depopulated and ruined some of those countries whose power and opulence it was supposed it would carry to the highest pitch . " -- ( Storch , Traitè d ...
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OUTLINES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY J. R. (John Ramsay) 1789-186 McCulloch,John M'Vickar Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 160 - There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 108 - He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding" moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.
Página 161 - It is, as it were, a certain quantity of labour stocked and stored up, to be employed, if necessary, upon some other occasion. That subject, or, what is the same thing, the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally produced it.
Página 171 - What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is annually spent, and nearly in the same time too ; but it is consumed by a different set of people.
Página 161 - Like the declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its production.
Página 161 - The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured.
Página 161 - The labour of the latter, however, has its value, and deserves its reward as well as that of the former. But the labour of the manufacturer fixes and realizes itself in some particular subject or vendible commodity, which lasts for some time at least after that labour is past.
Página 161 - Though the manufacturer has his wages advanced to him by his master, he, in reality, costs him no expense...
Página 121 - Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but a rent is paid because corn is high...