The Principles of Political Economy: With Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ScienceAlex. Murray and Son, 1870 - 360 páginas |
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... Crown , by whom the power of erecting monopolies was considered a very valuable branch of the prerogative , was effected by an act passed in 1624. This act has been productive of the greatest advantage ; but it did not touch any of the ...
... Crown , by whom the power of erecting monopolies was considered a very valuable branch of the prerogative , was effected by an act passed in 1624. This act has been productive of the greatest advantage ; but it did not touch any of the ...
Página 242
... crown , they speak properly , and are readily understood , when they say half a crown , or two shillings and six - pence , will now buy one tenth of a bushel of wheat , but do not say , that 15 lb. of lead will now buy one tenth of a ...
... crown , they speak properly , and are readily understood , when they say half a crown , or two shillings and six - pence , will now buy one tenth of a bushel of wheat , but do not say , that 15 lb. of lead will now buy one tenth of a ...
Página 276
... crown - pieces , stivers , or ducatoons , or in bullion , is and al- ways eternally will be , of equal value to any ... crown now , which be- fore , by the law , was but a part of a crown . For example : supposing , according to the ...
... crown - pieces , stivers , or ducatoons , or in bullion , is and al- ways eternally will be , of equal value to any ... crown now , which be- fore , by the law , was but a part of a crown . For example : supposing , according to the ...
Página 278
... crown in all payments ; yet he durst not make them current in the seaport towns , for fear that should give an ... crown , a shilling and a penny , in reference to one another , being still kept , ( viz . That a shilling shall weigh one ...
... crown in all payments ; yet he durst not make them current in the seaport towns , for fear that should give an ... crown , a shilling and a penny , in reference to one another , being still kept , ( viz . That a shilling shall weigh one ...
Página 279
... crown to 5s . and 3d . or ( which is the same thing ) making your crown one twentieth lighter in silver . The only difference is , that the loss is so great , ( it being eleven twelfths ) that every body sees , and abhors it at first ...
... crown to 5s . and 3d . or ( which is the same thing ) making your crown one twentieth lighter in silver . The only difference is , that the loss is so great , ( it being eleven twelfths ) that every body sees , and abhors it at first ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith advantage agriculture balance of trade bullion bushel capital capitalists carried circumstances clipped money coined silver commerce commodities commodities produced compared consequence consumed consumption corn cost crown cultivation debts demand denomination diminished dities durable effect employed employment England exchangeable value exportation fall foreign four per cent greater Holland improvement increase industry interest labour required land less lessening Lowndes machinery machines manufactures means melted merchant milled money modities nation natural necessary obtain occasion ounce of silver paid pence pieces plain population portion principle proportion publick purchase quantity of labour quantity of silver quarters rate of profit rate of wages raw produce real value reason receive reduced regulated rent rise sell shillings society soils species standard silver subsistence supply suppose thing tillage tion trade value of money vent wealth Wealth of Nations weight weighty money wheat whilst worth yield
Pasajes populares
Página 74 - 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 211 - In the same class must be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous professions: churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buffoons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c.
Página 40 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Página 179 - 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 28 - That there can be no trade unprofitable to the public; for if any prove so, men leave it off; and wherever the traders thrive, the public, of which they are a part, thrives also.
Página 138 - If among a nation of hunters, for example, it usually costs twice the labour to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver should naturally exchange for or be worth two deer. It is natural that what is usually the produce of two days or two hours labour should be worth double of what is usually the produce of one day's or one hour's labour.
Página 150 - The exchangeable value of all commodities, whether they be manufactured, or the produce of the mines, or the produce of land, is always regulated, not by the less quantity of labour that will suffice for their production under circumstances highly...
Página 84 - The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but, in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is by far the most advantageous to the society.
Página 35 - ... comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Página 86 - If this capital is divided between two different grocers, their competition will tend to make both of them sell cheaper, than if it were in the hands of one only ; and if it were divided among twenty, their competition would be just so much the greater, and the chance of their combining together, in order to raise the price, just so much the less.