Economics and Ethics: A Treatise on Wealth and LifeMethuen & Company Limited, 1923 - 293 páginas |
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... Exchange ' . J. R. McCulloch says , ' Political Economy is the Science of the laws which regulate the production ... exchangeable value ' Walter Bagehot defined Political The Scope and Method of Political Economy · The Scope and ...
... Exchange ' . J. R. McCulloch says , ' Political Economy is the Science of the laws which regulate the production ... exchangeable value ' Walter Bagehot defined Political The Scope and Method of Political Economy · The Scope and ...
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A Treatise on Wealth and Life Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott. same time possess exchangeable value ' Walter Bagehot defined Political Economy characteristically as ' the Science of business ' . It is , he goes on to say , ' an analysis ...
A Treatise on Wealth and Life Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott. same time possess exchangeable value ' Walter Bagehot defined Political Economy characteristically as ' the Science of business ' . It is , he goes on to say , ' an analysis ...
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... exchangeable value ; or , in other words , all useful or agreeable things except those which can be obtained in the quantity desired without labour or sacrifice ' . Wealth ' says Walker , ' com- prises all articles of value and nothing ...
... exchangeable value ; or , in other words , all useful or agreeable things except those which can be obtained in the quantity desired without labour or sacrifice ' . Wealth ' says Walker , ' com- prises all articles of value and nothing ...
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... value than opulence ' . Plainly , he was right . National security is preferable to national wealth : but a patriot will strive to attain both objects . Similarly , because human ... exchangeable value , but air 20 ECONOMICS AND ETHICS.
... value than opulence ' . Plainly , he was right . National security is preferable to national wealth : but a patriot will strive to attain both objects . Similarly , because human ... exchangeable value , but air 20 ECONOMICS AND ETHICS.
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... exchangeable value , but air is not less essential to life than bread . Nor is the wealth element constant in all commodities under all conditions of time and place . Sea - water , for example , has no value as long as it is in the sea ...
... exchangeable value , but air is not less essential to life than bread . Nor is the wealth element constant in all commodities under all conditions of time and place . Sea - water , for example , has no value as long as it is in the sea ...
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Adam Smith advantage aggregate agricultural amount argument Aristotle banks capital capitalist cent chapter Christ Christian citizen commercial commodities concerned considerable consumer consumption contribute cost currency demand depends distribution division of labour duty economists Edition England English equal Ethics exchangeable value expenditure exports fact Fcap France Free Trade gild gold Government human important income increase individual industrial revolution J. A. Hobson J. S. Mill land laws less limited loans manor marginal utility matter ment Mill modern moral nature necessary organization paid person Political Economy poor population possess principle problem product of industry profits proportion purchase question rate of interest regard remuneration rent revenue revolution rich secure sense social socialist supply taxation things tion to-day true Unto This Last usury utility villein wage-earners wages Wealth of Nations workers
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Página 6 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 192 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the" world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 177 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our oWn industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 257 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.
Página 198 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 3 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Página 28 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Página 28 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Página 135 - The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population.
Página 193 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunderstorm; Till the war drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.