The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ScienceA. and C. Black, 1849 - 646 páginas |
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... amount of public wealth . But even in mechanics , the engineer must allow for the friction and resistance of matter ; and it is still more necessary that the economist should make a corresponding allowance , seeing that he has to deal ...
... amount of public wealth . But even in mechanics , the engineer must allow for the friction and resistance of matter ; and it is still more necessary that the economist should make a corresponding allowance , seeing that he has to deal ...
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... amount of permanent good , has made but little progress , and is hardly , indeed , advanced beyond infancy . Initiatos nos credimus dum in vestibulo hæremus . Nor , consider- ing the totally different circumstances under which society ...
... amount of permanent good , has made but little progress , and is hardly , indeed , advanced beyond infancy . Initiatos nos credimus dum in vestibulo hæremus . Nor , consider- ing the totally different circumstances under which society ...
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... Amount of Property Insured - Life Insurance ; Objections to , and Advantages of , Page 227 249 CHAPTER X. Interference of Government with the Pursuits and Property of Individuals — Cases in , and Objects for which such Inter- ference is ...
... Amount of Property Insured - Life Insurance ; Objections to , and Advantages of , Page 227 249 CHAPTER X. Interference of Government with the Pursuits and Property of Individuals — Cases in , and Objects for which such Inter- ference is ...
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... Amount and Species of the Articles consumed by the La- bourers , and partly on the Productiveness of Industry . SEC- TION IV . DIFFERENCE IN THEIR INFLUENCE OVER WAGES BETWEEN A DEMAND FOR LABOUR , AND A DEMAND FOR THE PRODUCTS OF ...
... Amount and Species of the Articles consumed by the La- bourers , and partly on the Productiveness of Industry . SEC- TION IV . DIFFERENCE IN THEIR INFLUENCE OVER WAGES BETWEEN A DEMAND FOR LABOUR , AND A DEMAND FOR THE PRODUCTS OF ...
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... amount of wealth with the least difficulty , must certainly deserve to be carefully studied and meditated . There is no class of persons to whom it can be considered as either extrinsic or superfluous . There are some , doubtless , to ...
... amount of wealth with the least difficulty , must certainly deserve to be carefully studied and meditated . There is no class of persons to whom it can be considered as either extrinsic or superfluous . There are some , doubtless , to ...
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Página 411 - 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 229 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Página 583 - There is one sort of labour," says he, " 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 labour.
Página 231 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
Página 198 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Página 431 - The liberal reward of labour," says Dr Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.