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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... condition of society , and to condemn the great majority of the human race to a state approach- ing to destitution . But farther inquiries have shown that the inferences drawn by these and other autho- rities from the principle now ...
... condition of society , and to condemn the great majority of the human race to a state approach- ing to destitution . But farther inquiries have shown that the inferences drawn by these and other autho- rities from the principle now ...
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... Condition of the Labouring 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 ...
... Condition of the Labouring 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 ...
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... condition of a people . It is impossible , indeed , to name a nation , distinguished in philosophy or the fine arts , that has not been , at the same time , celebrated for its riches . Pericles and Phidias , Petrarch and Raphael ...
... condition of a people . It is impossible , indeed , to name a nation , distinguished in philosophy or the fine arts , that has not been , at the same time , celebrated for its riches . Pericles and Phidias , Petrarch and Raphael ...
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... condition , impels him to save and accumulate . The principles which form the basis of this science make , therefore , a part of the original constitution of man , and of the physical world ; and their operation may , like that of the ...
... condition , impels him to save and accumulate . The principles which form the basis of this science make , therefore , a part of the original constitution of man , and of the physical world ; and their operation may , like that of the ...
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... condition of savages . The multiplied and stupendous improvements made in different ages and nations the forests that have been cut down - the marshes and lakes that have been drained and sub- jected to cultivation - the harbours ...
... condition of savages . The multiplied and stupendous improvements made in different ages and nations the forests that have been cut down - the marshes and lakes that have been drained and sub- jected to cultivation - the harbours ...
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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.