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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... Classes -Ad- vantage of a High Rate of Wages - Disadvantage of having the Labourers dependent for support on the cheapest Species of Food - Circumstances affecting the Condition of the La- bourers - Education - Influx of Irish Labourers ...
... Classes -Ad- vantage of a High Rate of Wages - Disadvantage of having the Labourers dependent for support on the cheapest Species of Food - Circumstances affecting the Condition of the La- bourers - Education - Influx of Irish Labourers ...
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... classes of the community ; and the mode in which it may be most advantageously consumed . The intimate connexion of such a science with all the best interests of society is abundantly obvious . There is no other , indeed , which comes ...
... classes of the community ; and the mode in which it may be most advantageously consumed . The intimate connexion of such a science with all the best interests of society is abundantly obvious . There is no other , indeed , which comes ...
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... classes ; but to apply himself to discover the sources of national wealth and universal prosperity , and the means by which they may be ren- dered most productive . Nothing , indeed , is more common than to hear it objected to some of ...
... classes ; but to apply himself to discover the sources of national wealth and universal prosperity , and the means by which they may be ren- dered most productive . Nothing , indeed , is more common than to hear it objected to some of ...
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... classes consisted of slaves , and its state in the middle ages , and down almost to our own times , was extreme- ly different from its present state ; so that the lessons derived from past experience , the only sure ground on which to ...
... classes consisted of slaves , and its state in the middle ages , and down almost to our own times , was extreme- ly different from its present state ; so that the lessons derived from past experience , the only sure ground on which to ...
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... classes join in petitioning for its aboli- tion ; and this , after much opposition on the part of the Crown , which looked upon the power to erect monopolies as a very valuable branch of the preroga- tive , was effected by an act passed ...
... classes join in petitioning for its aboli- tion ; and this , after much opposition on the part of the Crown , which looked upon the power to erect monopolies as a very valuable branch of the preroga- tive , was effected by an act passed ...
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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.