A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English Political Economy: From 1776 to 1848P.S. King and son, 1903 - 422 páginas |
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... employing a multitude of manufacturers ; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude of menial servants . ' The observation bears a sort of semblance of truth because it is so very much more likely that a man will ruin himself by employing ...
... employing a multitude of manufacturers ; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude of menial servants . ' The observation bears a sort of semblance of truth because it is so very much more likely that a man will ruin himself by employing ...
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... employed ought to be grateful for their wages , while the employed firmly hold that the employer is maintained entirely at their expense . So the physiocrats alleged that the husbandman maintained himself and all other classes ; and ...
... employed ought to be grateful for their wages , while the employed firmly hold that the employer is maintained entirely at their expense . So the physiocrats alleged that the husbandman maintained himself and all other classes ; and ...
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... employed ; as when we purchase a wig or a chest of medicine . In other cases , what we buy is not the thing altered but the labour of altering it , as when we employ a haircutter or a physician . Our attention in all these cases ...
... employed ; as when we purchase a wig or a chest of medicine . In other cases , what we buy is not the thing altered but the labour of altering it , as when we employ a haircutter or a physician . Our attention in all these cases ...
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... employed in useful labour and that of those who are not so employed . ' 3 A discussion of the different circumstances which regulate the amount of per capita produce is exactly what we should expect to find in a theory of production ...
... employed in useful labour and that of those who are not so employed . ' 3 A discussion of the different circumstances which regulate the amount of per capita produce is exactly what we should expect to find in a theory of production ...
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... employed in useful labour , and that of those who are not so employed . The number of useful and productive labourers , it will hereafter appear , is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting ...
... employed in useful labour , and that of those who are not so employed . The number of useful and productive labourers , it will hereafter appear , is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting ...
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A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution: In English ... Edwin Cannan Vista completa - 1903 |
A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution: In English ... Edwin Cannan Vista completa - 1903 |
Términos y frases comunes
accumulation acre Adam Smith agriculture amount annual produce Book capital employed capitalist causes cent chap chapter circulating capital commodities consequence consists consumed consumption Corn Laws cultivation depend diminishing returns distribution division of labour duce ductive economist edition effect employment equal Essay exchange expense fact fall farmer fertile fixed capital fund greater Ibid improvement income J. S. Mill James Mill landlord less M'Culloch machine machinery Malthus Malthus's manufactures materials means money wages natural price necessary number of labourers obtained obviously paid People's physiocrats Political Economy population portion price of corn Principles productive labourers profits of stock progress proportion proposition quantity of labour raise rate of profit rate of wages ratio raw produce remuneration revenue Ricardo rise saving says society soil subsistence supply supposed theory things tion trade unproductive wage-fund wages and profits wages of labour Wealth of Nations wheat whole produce yield
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Página 189 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Página 41 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertions, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 210 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 243 - It is not to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant. It varies at different times in the same country, and very materially differs in different countries.* It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
Página 176 - The density of population necessary to enable mankind to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of co-operation and of social intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries, been attained. A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.
Página 181 - When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
Página 195 - As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order to make a profit by the sale of their work, or by what their labour adds to the value of the materials.
Página 351 - The whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality.
Página 265 - By population is here meant the number only of the labouring class, or rather of those who work for hire ; and by capital, only circulating capital, and not even the whole of that, but the part which is expended in the direct purchase of labour.
Página 68 - 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 sett of people.