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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... foreign to the business of the economist , it is his pro- vince to examine such laws or regulations as may appear ( whether directly or indirectly is immaterial ) to influence the production and distribution of wealth . It may be ...
... foreign to the business of the economist , it is his pro- vince to examine such laws or regulations as may appear ( whether directly or indirectly is immaterial ) to influence the production and distribution of wealth . It may be ...
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... foreign coins , or bullion , of the value of £ 30,000 ; on condition , how- ever , of their importing , within six months after the termination of every voyage , except the first , as much gold and silver as they exported . But the ...
... foreign coins , or bullion , of the value of £ 30,000 ; on condition , how- ever , of their importing , within six months after the termination of every voyage , except the first , as much gold and silver as they exported . But the ...
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... Foreign Trade , " orig . ed . p . 50. - This work was published in 1664 , a considerable period after Mr. Mun's death . Most probably it had been written about 1635 or 1640 . Mun had previously advanced the same doctrines , nearly in ...
... Foreign Trade , " orig . ed . p . 50. - This work was published in 1664 , a considerable period after Mr. Mun's death . Most probably it had been written about 1635 or 1640 . Mun had previously advanced the same doctrines , nearly in ...
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... foreign commodities occasioned the exportation of so much more native produce than would otherwise have been exported , as should more than equal their cost . These opinions necessarily led to the famous doctrine of the Balance of Trade ...
... foreign commodities occasioned the exportation of so much more native produce than would otherwise have been exported , as should more than equal their cost . These opinions necessarily led to the famous doctrine of the Balance of Trade ...
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... foreign trade ; wherein we must ever observe this rule - to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs ... foreign countries to the value of £ 2,200,000 , by which means we are enabled , beyond the seas , to buy and bring in ...
... foreign trade ; wherein we must ever observe this rule - to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs ... foreign countries to the value of £ 2,200,000 , by which means we are enabled , beyond the seas , to buy and bring in ...
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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.