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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... difficulty , we have been unable to profit by the interest they might have given to this work . We hope , however , to be able , at some not very distant period , to investigate , in detail , the various matters connected with taxation ...
... difficulty , we have been unable to profit by the interest they might have given to this work . We hope , however , to be able , at some not very distant period , to investigate , in detail , the various matters connected with taxation ...
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... difficulty is merely in reasoning from them . But while we admit the difficulty of drawing correct inferences , we greatly doubt whether the general principles can be so easily established as Mr Senior supposes . He lays it down , for ...
... difficulty is merely in reasoning from them . But while we admit the difficulty of drawing correct inferences , we greatly doubt whether the general principles can be so easily established as Mr Senior supposes . He lays it down , for ...
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... difficulty does not , therefore , lie in dis- cussing matters connected with this science , in the statement of general principles , or in reasoning fairly from them ; but it lies in the discovery of the secon- dary or modifying ...
... difficulty does not , therefore , lie in dis- cussing matters connected with this science , in the statement of general principles , or in reasoning fairly from them ; but it lies in the discovery of the secon- dary or modifying ...
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... Difficulties in the way of its Establishment- Influence of Friendly Societies and Savings Banks , CHAPTER V. Conflicting Opinions with respect to the Origin of Rent - Theory of Dr Anderson - Nature and Progress of Rent - Not a Cause but ...
... Difficulties in the way of its Establishment- Influence of Friendly Societies and Savings Banks , CHAPTER V. Conflicting Opinions with respect to the Origin of Rent - Theory of Dr Anderson - Nature and Progress of Rent - Not a Cause but ...
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... 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 whom it may be of more advantage ...
... 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 whom it may be of more advantage ...
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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.