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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... cent , has it equally in his power to accumulate twice as fast as the capitalist who cannot find a mode of investment that will yield more than five per cent . It is true that high profits give the means only of amassing capital ; and ...
... cent , has it equally in his power to accumulate twice as fast as the capitalist who cannot find a mode of investment that will yield more than five per cent . It is true that high profits give the means only of amassing capital ; and ...
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... cent for wear and tear and loss of coins , could not be reckoned at less than £ 3,250,000 a - year . It is obvious , too , were there nothing but coins in circulation , that the conveyance of large sums from place to place to discharge ...
... cent for wear and tear and loss of coins , could not be reckoned at less than £ 3,250,000 a - year . It is obvious , too , were there nothing but coins in circulation , that the conveyance of large sums from place to place to discharge ...
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... cent advance , that being the lowest rate that will yield 10 per cent of profits and £ 50 of wages . Had the grocer been able to employ a capital of £ 2000 , he would have obtained the same profits and wages by selling his goods at an ...
... cent advance , that being the lowest rate that will yield 10 per cent of profits and £ 50 of wages . Had the grocer been able to employ a capital of £ 2000 , he would have obtained the same profits and wages by selling his goods at an ...
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... cent . ; while , notwithstanding its extraordinary increase , it does not at present ( 1816 ) exceed 2.6 or 2.7 per cent . The rate of mortality in Man- chester in 1770 , as deduced from the careful observations made by Dr. Percival ...
... cent . ; while , notwithstanding its extraordinary increase , it does not at present ( 1816 ) exceed 2.6 or 2.7 per cent . The rate of mortality in Man- chester in 1770 , as deduced from the careful observations made by Dr. Percival ...
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... cent below their present prices , would occasion the dismissal of every cotton spinner and weaver in England ; while the increased demand for other commodities , occasioned by this trifling saving , would barely afford employment for ...
... cent below their present prices , would occasion the dismissal of every cotton spinner and weaver in England ; while the increased demand for other commodities , occasioned by this trifling saving , would barely afford employment for ...
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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.