Some Readings in Economics: Prepared for the Use of Students in Course I, Political Economy, University of MichiganG. Wahr, 1907 - 216 páginas |
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... Production using much Capital are more efficient than Methods using little Capital . Boehm - Bawerk . READING VI . The Precise Function of the Entrepreneur and the true Nature of Entrepreneur's Profit . Mangoldt . READING VII . 28 ...
... Production using much Capital are more efficient than Methods using little Capital . Boehm - Bawerk . READING VI . The Precise Function of the Entrepreneur and the true Nature of Entrepreneur's Profit . Mangoldt . READING VII . 28 ...
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... produce the most frightful distress ; since the spot on which they are cantoned produces absolutely nothing . Some indeed of the articles consumed admit of being reserved in public or private stores , for a considerable time ; but many ...
... produce the most frightful distress ; since the spot on which they are cantoned produces absolutely nothing . Some indeed of the articles consumed admit of being reserved in public or private stores , for a considerable time ; but many ...
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... produce , nor credit for the important public service which they in reality per- form . They are merely occupied in ... productions PRESENT ORDER CO - OPERATIVE 15.
... produce , nor credit for the important public service which they in reality per- form . They are merely occupied in ... productions PRESENT ORDER CO - OPERATIVE 15.
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... productions of all the different arts , in consequence of the division of labour , which occasions , in a well ... produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen . To say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor ...
... productions of all the different arts , in consequence of the division of labour , which occasions , in a well ... produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen . To say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor ...
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... produce the latter ; and it may even cost more . But then it must be observed , that , in making the exchange , the value of the wine is estimated by its cost in Portugal , which has peculiar facilities for its production , and not by ...
... produce the latter ; and it may even cost more . But then it must be observed , that , in making the exchange , the value of the wine is estimated by its cost in Portugal , which has peculiar facilities for its production , and not by ...
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Some Readings in Economics: Prepared for the Use of Students in Course I ... Fred Manville Taylor Vista de fragmentos - 1907 |
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Página 198 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 16 - It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people.
Página 206 - In a perfectly fair lottery, those who draw the prizes ought to gain all that is lost by those who draw the blanks. In a profession where twenty fail for one that succeeds, that one ought to gain all that should have been gained by the unsuccessful twenty.
Página 51 - 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 25 - The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. They are the servants of the public, and are maintained by a part of the annual produce of the industry of other people. Their service how honourable, how useful, or how necessary soever, produces nothing for which an equal quantity of service can afterwards be procured.
Página 194 - The market price of labour is the price which is really paid for it, from the natural operation of the proportion of the supply to the demand; labour is dear when it is scarce and cheap when it is plentiful. However much the market price of labour may deviate from its natural price, it has, like commodities, a tendency to conform to it.
Página 24 - 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
Página 133 - It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove, that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver ; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing.
Página 52 - As by means of water-carriage, a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land-carriage alone can afford it, so it is upon the seacoast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself...
Página 207 - ... gained by the unsuccessful twenty. The counsellor at law, who, perhaps, at near forty years of age, begins to make something by his profession, ought to receive the retribution, not only of his own so tedious and expensive education, but of that of more than twenty others who are never likely to make anything by it. How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this.