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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Página 29
... weight is all one . ' ' That exchange and ready money are the same , nothing but carriage and re - carriage being saved ? That money exported in trade is an increase to the wealth of the nation ; but spent in war , and payments abroad ...
... weight is all one . ' ' That exchange and ready money are the same , nothing but carriage and re - carriage being saved ? That money exported in trade is an increase to the wealth of the nation ; but spent in war , and payments abroad ...
Página 136
... weight of gold is at present worth about fifteen pounds of silver . It cannot , however , be said that this is a consequence of the demand for gold being greater than the demand for silver , for the reverse is the fact . Neither can it ...
... weight of gold is at present worth about fifteen pounds of silver . It cannot , however , be said that this is a consequence of the demand for gold being greater than the demand for silver , for the reverse is the fact . Neither can it ...
Página 203
... weight of taxation that was the real cause of the lowness of profits in Holland , and consequently of the decline of her manufacturing and commercial prosperity . Notwithstanding the rigid and laudable economy of her rulers , the vast ...
... weight of taxation that was the real cause of the lowness of profits in Holland , and consequently of the decline of her manufacturing and commercial prosperity . Notwithstanding the rigid and laudable economy of her rulers , the vast ...
Página 205
... weight , or the number of the pro- ducts consumed , but exclusively by their value . Large consumption is the destruction of large value , however small the bulk in which that value may happen to be compressed . Consumption , in the ...
... weight , or the number of the pro- ducts consumed , but exclusively by their value . Large consumption is the destruction of large value , however small the bulk in which that value may happen to be compressed . Consumption , in the ...
Página 226
... weight to the emptier , as if he took out of the heavier what he adds to the lighter , for then half so much will do it . Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver , but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world ...
... weight to the emptier , as if he took out of the heavier what he adds to the lighter , for then half so much will do it . Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver , but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world ...
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.