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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... commerce may be fairly presumed to be inexpedient till the reverse be established . There can , however , be no manner of doubt that there are cases , though but few in num- ber , in which nations would grossly overlook their own ...
... commerce may be fairly presumed to be inexpedient till the reverse be established . There can , however , be no manner of doubt that there are cases , though but few in num- ber , in which nations would grossly overlook their own ...
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... COMMERCE AND COMMERCIAL NAVIGATION . Illustrated with Maps and Plans . A New Edition , in one very thick and closely printed vol . 8vo . London , 1849 . N.B. - A Supplement to the edition of 1847 may be had separately . 2. A DICTIONARY ...
... COMMERCE AND COMMERCIAL NAVIGATION . Illustrated with Maps and Plans . A New Edition , in one very thick and closely printed vol . 8vo . London , 1849 . N.B. - A Supplement to the edition of 1847 may be had separately . 2. A DICTIONARY ...
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... Commerce contributes to increase Wealth - Restrictions on Commerce , for the Promotion of Domestic Industry and National Secu- rity - Influence of these Restrictions - Duties on Imports , CHAPTER VI . Different Employments of Capital ...
... Commerce contributes to increase Wealth - Restrictions on Commerce , for the Promotion of Domestic Industry and National Secu- rity - Influence of these Restrictions - Duties on Imports , CHAPTER VI . Different Employments of Capital ...
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... Commerce of a Country under any Disadvantage , 353 PART III . DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH . CHAPTER I. Wages in the different Departments of Industry - Causes of their Apparent Discrepancy - Really approach very near to Equality ,. 381 ...
... Commerce of a Country under any Disadvantage , 353 PART III . DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH . CHAPTER I. Wages in the different Departments of Industry - Causes of their Apparent Discrepancy - Really approach very near to Equality ,. 381 ...
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... commerce . The influence of wealth is , in this respect , almost omnipotent . It raised Venice from the bosom of the deep ; and made the desert and sandy islands on which she is built , and the unhealthy swamps of Holland , the favoured ...
... commerce . The influence of wealth is , in this respect , almost omnipotent . It raised Venice from the bosom of the deep ; and made the desert and sandy islands on which she is built , and the unhealthy swamps of Holland , the favoured ...
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Página 151 - ... be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página xviii - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
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Página ix - M'CULLOCH. -A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL INFLUENCE of TAXATION and the FUNDING SYSTEM.
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.